I guess if you can't get served at a lunch counter due to your race, you should just go to another lunch counter.
this and the rosa parks stuff are both horrible analogies. take five minutes and actually think about the differences between the two. I can't believe you guys are making me side with fsd.
Would a refusal to make a cake for an interracial or black couple be a better analogy?
It's a better one, but it's still not a good one and since I can't really think of a good one, I'd say this case actually is pretty nuanced or unique or whatever word you want to use.
as for bad analogies, how's this one- a Christian rock band is taking requests at a show and declines to play a song about sex and the devil or something and now they're in court over it and the court has decided that they also have to play songs like that because some person at their show wanted them to and if they don't then they can't keep playing shows.
the bottom line is that it's not the people he has problem with, it's the message. should he also have to make pro kkk cakes? what about cakes celebrating the holocaust? can he say no to those?
A Christian rock band singing songs is clear artistic expression, which they have a right to refuse. This case is about a guy refusing to sell a gay couple anything because they were gay.
[/quote]Cole said the dispute did not involve words or speech. “The only thing the baker knew about these customers was that they were gay,” he said. “There was no request for a design. There was no request for message. He refused to sell any wedding cake. And that’s identity-based discrimination.”[/quote]
basically, if they'd ask for a cake that depicted something like raw gay sex, he would have been well within his rights to decline. But he refused to sell them
anything based on their sexual orientation.