The same response would have been prompted by anyone’s refusal to bake a Nazi-themed cake. Or by anyone’s decision to serve a homosexual-themed cake at a wedding, or to serve a Nazi-themed cake. There might have been some eye-rolling accompanying that response in one or all of these cases, but no one would have said that any one of these choices should be prohibited by law.
Most especially, no one would have said that anyone should be punished by the government for refusing to eat a piece of either cake, or refusing to have such a cake at a wedding, or refusing to bake either cake. To even propose any such thing would earn suspicion about one’s qualifications for American citizenship.
AND YET, SOMETIME NEXT MONTH, Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission is due to be argued in front of the Supreme Court. The case is that of a private business standing up against an oppressive state bureaucracy which is trying to punish it for insisting that America is still a free country.
How disgusting that this matter wasn’t thrown out along with the ...
