Supreme Court to Hear Case of Bakery That Refused to Bake Cake for Same Sex Marriage

[Robert]

Great one. I can only offer what the Lancashire man who was present at the time said :

"Ecky homo!"

[Sam Flynn]

Steer clear of the Victoria sponge cake because it's been dipped in vinegar.

I once wrote a compendium of liturgical texts, but the index failed to mention the reed on which the sponge was placed. I was rightly accused of being unable to organise a hyssop in a breviary.

[Robert]

Steer clear of the Victoria sponge cake because it's been dipped in vinegar.

[Sam Flynn]

But really Sam do you not agree that what 5 years over whether someone should be forced to bake a cake is a totally useless exercise in human endeavour?

A bit excessive, I'd agree.

I'm still really trying to get my head round the concept of a "Christian Bakery" tbh.

Perhaps they sell loaves and fish?

Which reminds me of a pun I heard this morning. Someone complained about election candidates pretending to be Christians in order to gain a temporary political advantage. They should be more honest with their voters because, after all, "a Christ is for life, not just for dogmas".

[DirectorDave]

Isn't "serfdom to diversity" a bit of an oxymoron? Besides, what's the alternative - submission to an artificial norm?

Yeah that will do.

But really Sam do you not agree that what 5 years over whether someone should be forced to bake a cake is a totally useless exercise in human endeavour?

Capitalism has an answer to this, open up "Rainbow Bakery" in the vicinity and let the market decide.

I'm still really trying to get my head round the concept of a "Christian Bakery" tbh.

[Harry D]

Supreme Court clears him

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1J01WU

God bless America.

If that was over here, he would've been sent to a re-education camp for "hate crime".

[Sam Flynn]

Isn't "serfdom to diversity" a bit of an oxymoron? Besides, what's the alternative - submission to an artificial norm?

[DirectorDave]

I have no doubt that Christian fundamentalists who were livid over the Court's same sex marriage decision and who called it a decision by unelected black robed judges will be praising this decision to high heaven (pun intended).

c.d.

As will all true Liberals...serfdom to diversity is not any kind of freedom.

[c.d.]

I have no doubt that Christian fundamentalists who were livid over the Court's same sex marriage decision and who called it a decision by unelected black robed judges will be praising this decision to high heaven (pun intended).

c.d.

[Ginger]

Supreme Court clears him

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...-idUSKCN1J01WU

Well, I certainly didn't expect that.

[GUT]

Supreme Court clears him

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-baker/u-s-supreme-court-backs-christian-baker-who-rebuffed-gay-couple-idUSKCN1J01WU

[Pcdunn]

I agree with you, Ginger, about the difference between law and justice. Ideally, all laws would be just ones and equally enforced, but we don't get live in an ideal world.

[Ginger]

Or for passive resistance, if the law is truly unjust, such as the local Jim Crow regulations making it difficult (if not impossible) for African-Americans to register to vote. If the law says all voters must be allowed to sign onto electoral rolls, but staff don't bother to do their jobs, based on the color of the prospective voters' skin, isn't that a crime?

Crime is crime. The robber who relieves you of your wallet at gunpoint no doubt feels that society is unfair for rewarding your native talents with prosperity and security, while his own meager gifts meet with no such recompense. And he may have a point at that.

Regardless, as I'm one of the people for whom the law and society serve to provide a good life, I'm eager to see civil order maintained. In the end, I draw a sharp line between Law and Justice. Law is black and white. Justice is often a thousand shades of grey. when anything approximating it can even be found.

[Pcdunn]

What would Henry David Thoreau do?

"Civil Disobedience" is just another name for crime.

Or for passive resistance, if the law is truly unjust, such as the local Jim Crow regulations making it difficult (if not impossible) for African-Americans to register to vote. If the law says all voters must be allowed to sign onto electoral rolls, but staff don't bother to do their jobs, based on the color of the prospective voters' skin, isn't that a crime?

[Ginger]

Interesting article, Ginger, thanks. This has the added flourish that the bakery refused to pay the court-ordered sum of money to the clients. So, civil disobedience, if the bakery owners believe it was an unjust law? But not in my opinion, because I think to maintain social order, we should follow laws that try to protect the rights of people.

"Civil Disobedience" is just another name for crime.