Supreme Court will hear case of Colorado baker who refused to make wedding cake for same-sex couple

[jgmiller]

31. I'm really surprised they wanted to deal with this

It's a legal mine field. Let's say someone comes into their cake shop and says they want him to make a cake of a nude woman. I doubt there are many people that say he would be legally required to make that cake even if it offended him. If two gay men come into his cake shop and want to buy a cake for their wedding but there is nothing offending on the cake, not even their names or even figures of two guys then most logical people would say him denying them service is discriminatory. However every business has a sign that says they can refuse service for any reason. The couple went in there know they might not get served.

Where it really gets messy is where you draw the line. Did he ask the couple if they are gay? That seems discriminatory to me because he is vetting people asking personal information so he is violating their right to privacy. If they asked for two men on the cake and he said he would make a cake for them but he wouldn't put two men on it then to me that's not discriminatory because they are asking him to do something that is offensive to him, like the nude woman on a cake.

No matter what they rule they are going to create problems which is why I'm surprised they took it.