Court may hear same-sex wedding cake religious exception case

[Stan]

There are several reasons why the Supreme Court may decide to hear this case when it declined to hear previous religious exception cases.

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[CoAspen]

Where will it all end......I can't cut/fix your because you are a gay person.....nope, won't cut/fix your nails either.....nope....nope.....nope....I see a slippry sloap going in the opposite direction! 

Prejudice is an affective feeling toward a person or group member based solely on their group membership. The word is often used to refer to preconceived, usually unfavorable, feelings toward people or a person because of their sex, gender, beliefs, values, social class, age, disability, religion, sexuality, race/ethnicity, language, nationality, beauty, occupation, education, criminality, sport team affiliation or other personal characteristics. In this case, it refers to a positive or negative evaluation of another person based on their perceived groupmembership.^[1] -Wiki-

[Gregory Matthews]

Let us keep in mind the boundaries of this case.   No U.S. Court is going to compel a bakery that does not bake wedding cakes to begin baking wedding cakes.  We  often purchase bread from a bakery that does  not bake what might be considered a traditional wedding cake.   It does bake a few cakes, but none of them would ever be considered a wedding cake. 

But, the bakery involved in this case was a bakery that baked wedding cakes and that consisted of a substantial pert of its business.  This bakery is a commercial business that has refused to sell an item that it regularly sells to a customer that under State law is in a protected class and cannot be discriminated against.

The foundation for the  State statute that protects this class of people goes back in history to a time when on the basis of religious belief people were denied service on the basis of their racial/ethnic backgrounds.

The bottom line is:  People who provide commercial services to the public must chose a service to  provide that does not discriminate against protected classes of customers, for any reason.

In the ca se of this bakery, it should only provide products and services that are available to all and do not violate laws that prohibit discrimination against protected classes of people.

These laws are quite simple and easy to understand.  A commercial establishment may refuse service to people who are barefoot, as barefoot people do not constitute a protected class of people.

 

 

   

[Gregory Matthews]

The Supreme Court has decided to hear this case.  No assumption should be made as to either the decision of the basis of that decision.