Makes sense. Imagine if a Muslim baker was forced to make a cake with the text "Allah is a False God."
Good choice by the Supreme Court!
Good choice by the Supreme Court!
> Before the district court, Ms. Smith and the State stipulated to a number of facts: Ms. Smith is “willing to work with all people regard- less of classifications such as race, creed, sexual orientation, and gen- der” and “will gladly create custom graphics and websites” for clients of any sexual orientation; she will not produce content that “contra- dicts biblical truth” regardless of who orders it; Ms. Smith’s belief that marriage is a union between one man and one woman is a sincerely held conviction; Ms. Smith provides design services that are “expres- sive” and her “original, customized” creations “contribut[e] to the over- all message” her business conveys “through the websites” it creates; the wedding websites she plans to create “will be expressive in nature,” will be “customized and tailored” through close collaboration with in- dividual couples, and will “express Ms. Smith’s and 303 Creative’s message celebrating and promoting” her view of marriage; viewers of Ms. Smith’s websites “will know that the websites are her original art- work;” and “[t]here are numerous companies in the State of Colorado and across the nation that offer custom website design services.”
The only opposition here is to selling a website with a message she opposes, i.e. she'd be happy to sell a website celebrating a straight marriage to a gay person, but not happy to sell a website celebrating a gay marriage to anyone.
Now you can say that she's lying, but nothing in this ruling prevents them from suing her if it was really about the customer and not the message.
Under this theory I ought to be able to sue a woman I'm dating in case we in the future we have sex and she may in the future choose to abort my imaginary baby.
Meanwhile Jake loves John for instance has a meritorious purpose and is non-offensive.
Can you think of a less contrived test?
This was lampshaded in Masterpiece case that noticed that they went past a whole bunch of cake shops to get to that particular one that would refuse.
Though I suppose I should rejoice that the law protects Muslims from bigots like you who state elsewhere that their views and people like them are the equivalent of a mental disorder.
As if asking a Christian or Muslim (because some Muslims actually do believe the same story and incorporate it into their law) to make a message supporting gay marriage, who takes that literally, isn't meant to be offensive.
Trying to make life harder for those folks who are doing nothing wrong to anyone by loving people is unjustifiable moral evil that isn't made less so by explaining the fantasies that justify such.
It's exactly as if you explained to me that how all bald guys were really death eaters and you had to keep them down so that Voldemort doesn't come back.