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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
How about an Islamic cake maker? He won't want to make a custom gay wedding cake either.
And how is this any different to someone commissioning a song from a songwriter? Perhaps I want an artist to write a song about my gay feelings, and that artist says "sorry I don't want to because I'm a fucking bigot who hates gays". Should he be compelled to by law?
The key phrases are "public store front" and "their choice of business model."
If they are a private business, a members only club, or in any way not openly inviting for a random person to walk in and solicit a service they are there to sell, then they have ultimate say in to whom they sell whatever it is they sell.
However, if they are NOT those things, then they have to treat all the random people who solicit their services with equality.
If it is a public space, then they cannot discriminate. If it is a private space, then they can. The law only enters those private spaces under higher scrutiny or some legal BS language. You still can't murder anyone in your home, I mean. You do have nearly ultimate say in who can and can't be in your home (always exceptions - criminal investigations and whatnot). Your freedom of speech is wider in your home than outside of it - not all speech is protected in public spaces, but within your home, they may be. The classic example of yelling "theater" in a crowded firehouse or something. You can yell a lot of stuff in your own home that you cannot yell in a crowded theater.
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