My position is what the SC seems to be leaning toward: you should accommodate people but you cannot force messages or artistic endeavors. In other words, you should not put a sign on your door that says, "we do not serve gays" or whatever. But if you do not want to use your time and talents to support gay WEDDINGS, or photograph gay WEDDINGS, you should have that right.
So what if the business decides it doesn't want to support interracial weddings? Should they have that right? What if they want to refuse service to a minority? What if they want to refuse service because your church isn't their church? You see what a can of worms you open here.
What if the staff was predominately black, and the group that wanted to be served was the White Aryan Nation? Should they have the right to refuse.
You kind of have to feel for the manager here. He was given the choice between not serving this customer, or trying to serve the customer and facing a mass employee walkout.
In this case, it would seem the staff was required to serve a Christian EVENT, so the same would apply. They should not have to serve it, by law. But now will the same faction that wanted to force the baker and photographer to work say the same for these servers??? Shouldn't they be FORCED to serve it?
Over to you, Leftists
Again, the major difference was that this was an employee action, not a management action. The manager was happy to take the money from these trolls, until his employees found out who they were and refused to serve them. Any other time in history, the threat of firing would probably have been enough to get people to get into line. But we are at a point where restaurants and banquet halls are having a hard enough finding staff for these menial jobs as it is.
Still, I think the minister has perfectly good cause for breach of contract and damages. Does he have a civil rights suit? Probably not because these were the employees, not the manager. An employee action is kind of like if the Water Main broke or the health department shut you down. It's a circumstance largely beyond your control.
I'm guessing "basic human rights" means they are opposed to gay marriage and abortion.
How does this make any servers "unsafe"? Obvious things are obvious: people simply disagreeing with you does not REALLY make you "unsafe". Offended, hurt feelings is not "unsafe". It's part of life.
Again, we have cases of hate crimes that are committed against gay people all the time. So they would have pretty good reasons to feel unsafe around a bunch of (un)Christian bigots.
Waiting to hear from those I know wanted to force the baker to "bake the cake".....
Crickets, of course. They spew hypocrisy like they breathe
Well you put people who disagree with you on ignore, this is probably why you aren't hearing anything.
But here's the thing. If I went to work tomorrow and told my boss, "I refuse to deal with this vendor because he's a Mormon, and I think Mormons are a deranged cult!" I would probably get fired and rightfully so. So these arguments are usually for the privileged class who own businesses not the wage slaves. Once you've established that anyone can refuse to do their jobs on religious grounds, you can have all sorts of chaos.
