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Masterpiece Cakeshop case:

SCOTUS rules, 7-2, that Colorado Civil Rights Commission violated a Christian baker's Free Exercise rights when it cited him for refusing to sell a wedding cake to a same-sex couple.

Crux of the decision was two of the members of the Colorado Commission on Human Rights stating things that are frequently said in forums like this one. This was found to be "disrespectful" and hostile to religion by a majority of the Court.

The implication is that had the Commissioners not engaged in observing that the Christian religion had been invoked in the past to justify a variety of other evils like anti-miscegenation laws and slavery, the hearings would have been respectful and entitled to affirmation.

Majority of court did not reach the (difficult, IMO) free speech issue.

Certainly we should be concerned about the ruling. Let's be concerned about the actual ruling and its legal implications, though, not what media reports oversimplifying the case say when trying to condense it to "Christians win, gays lose." It's actually much more complicated - and much more pernicious - than that.

Here's my tweetstorm on my initial reading of the case.
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ErikGunderson 6 June 4
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Challenging this shop's right to discriminate is discrimination apparently.

I can imagine Breitbart having a celebration over this, but I wonder what the likes of Ellen DeGeneres think of it all, or is she sucking up to Trump and the establishment.

This can all be boiled down to:

"I don't want no queers in ma cake shop. Praise the Lord!"

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