This case has been stumbling along for 6 years now. Generating billable hours for lawyers. Got all the way to the Supremes yesterday to little good. The Supremes did hold that the Colorado people had been mean to the baker, and displayed hostility to religion, and the baker should be let off oin this one case. For all this legal mickey motion, sucking up 6 years and countless legal bills, no new broad principle of law came out of it. We can expect more years of profitable lawyering, at tax payer expense, on this issue.
What I would like to see is a law that says caterers, contractors, the self employed, people rendering custom services, cakes, photographs, music, hair care, flowers, don't have to serve customers they don't want to serve. They are different from retailers, restaurants, hotels, motels, gas stations, railroads, airlines, and bus companies, who are rightly obligated to serve everyone who walks in their door. These people are rendering custom services which makes them into supporters of the customer served. The baker felt that by baking a custom cake for a gay couple, he was supporting gay marriage. Which is understandable on the bakers part.
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