Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Edith Roberts Editor

Posted Thu, November 16th, 2017 7:11 am

Thursday round-up

For USA Today, Richard Wolf reports that “[w]hen a Colorado ‘cake artist’ who refuses to serve same-sex weddings brings his case to the Supreme Court next month {in Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission}, he’ll have a tight-knit fraternity of florists, bakers and memory makers in his corner,” hoping for “potential salvation” after “a nearly unbroken string of defeats at the hands of human rights commissions and local, state and federal courts.” At Take Care, Jim Oleske pushes back against the argument, made in an amicus brief on behalf of the baker, that civil rights laws like Colorado’s are “constitutionally vulnerable because the state is ‘discriminating between squarely opposite sides on a deeply divisive moral issue’ and taking sides in a ‘culture war’” over marriage equality.
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Recommended Citation: Edith Roberts, Thursday round-up, SCOTUSblog (Nov. 16, 2017, 7:11 AM), http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/11/thursday-round-up-401/

[blueinredohio]

1. Don't get me wrong I'm a bleeding heart liberal but I do believe

any store, restaurant etc. has the right to refuse service to anyone they choose but don't CRY when your business shuts down because of lack of business for that very reason

[Pope George Ringo II]

2. I would suggest that Barry Goldwater explored that approach.

It has its appeal, but I would argue that it's been fairly played out at this point in time.