Nosmo King
Gold Member
A poor rationalization on your part. If you perform professional services like a bakery and a customer wants the services you provide for the exact same fee, e.g., baking and decorating a wedding cake, you cannot hide behind some interpretation of religion in order to refuse service to that individual. No one is compelling work, unless you consider all those other customers as engaging in slavery whenever a cake is ordered.Freedom, it seems, is the exclusive province of the merchant class and does not extend to the consumer. If the customer wanted a cake similar to one they saw at another wedding, I guess their freedom to have the exact same cake is blunted. Freedom? Hardly.
Can we call discrimination "freedom" now? What a dilution of the word.
You don't have the freedom to force people to work for you. We a small conflict in the 1860s over that. And we also have a Constitutional amendment that specifically prohibits forcing others to work for you.
If you have a particular cake you want, you are quite free to ask whomever you want to make it and find someone who will. Perhaps someone will take you up on your offer. Or you can simply make it yourself. You do not have the freedom to compel someone to work for you. Period.
It just goes to show that the left still wants slaves.
Whenever the Rabid Right resorts to hyperbole, like calling a cake order a compulsion to work and therefore equivalent to slavery, the Rabid Right commits two grievous sins. First, the use of such irrational hyperbole is the final refuge of a weak argument. But more dire, they dilute slavery. Slavery, the immorality of it. Slavery, the dehumanizing aspects of it. Slavery, the shear cruelty of it are watered down to make the point of a bigot.