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The Christian bakers were sued and then forced to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple because sexual orientation is a protected class. "Alt-right" or whatever Daily Stormer is, is not a protected class. "Political party" is a protected class, which puts Daily Stormer in a possibly fuzzy territory (I have never read Daily Stormer so I don't know if they count as a political publication).

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Wasn't it because their service was custom messages on cakes? So they had to expect those messages would be often not to their liking?

Fine, let's make political affiliation a protected class as well. There's no reason to restrict it to registered parties. Nobody should be denied access goods and services because of who they voted for and how they wish to govern this country. Otherwise the majority could use denial of services to silence and coerce their political opponents.

> Fine, let's make political affiliation a protected class as well

No thanks.

The alt-right would undo all the protected classes. Tolerance is a peace treaty, not a suicide pact. Your rights do not supplant mine.

That's stupid. Why should I have anymore right to discriminate against people with red hair than people with black skin? If it's wrong, it's wrong no matter the group you do it to.

I'm talking about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin. You can discriminate against red-haired people but not black people.

It seems very unlikely that discriminating against red-haired people would survive a challenge since it is strongly correlated with specific races.

i.e. "we don't serve people with dark very curly hair", good luck with that one.

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