Wedding cakes were once a custom that didn’t see much variance: A white multitiered cake with a couple figurines on top. But, as in nearly every other facet of a
their beliefs. we don t know the outcome yet of the website case. my hunch is that the court is going to distinguish between service and speech. in other words, the baker, the website developer, the florist will be treated like artists who speak through their work and, therefore, are allowed to refuse business or service. the guy who delivers the tables and chairs to the wedding, not so much. my own view is if you re a baker of wedding cakes, it s your responsibility, your obligation to bake a cake for all wedding couples. same with the wedding website designer or the farmist, for that matter, who has call s about distributing birth control. you signed up for the gig. you cannot now stand behind your religion as a shield when you discriminate. instead, maybe you need a career change. i see the hockey player differently. provorov was hired to play hockey. i personally wish he had skated with the pride night jersey.
me. should they expect and adherence to the constitution be a nonnegotiable qualifier for presidential candidates? it s an excellent question that you have asked, and why we have seen a constitution for me but not for the? we have seen that with regard to the hard right and the first amendment, wanting to amplify and weaponize the first amendment to deny people the opportunity to get wedding cakes and to protest in front of abortion clinics, to stop people from using the term abortion if they re librarians and so much more, but yet, none interested in making sure that all americans have access to that when they disagree with republican platforms. we have seen the attack on the 14th amendment and substantive due process. in fact, what is really interesting is given the cases that are before the supreme court, this term, how there is so much talk about originalism and the failure to even connect the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments with reconstruction and also