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The U.S. Supreme Court says the Colorado state panel violated baker's religious rights.The ruling was 7-2, with 2 liberals joining 5 conservatives
REUTERS Published 2 Hours Ago
The justices, in a 7-2 decision, said the Colorado Civil Rights Commission showed an impermissible hostility toward religion when it found that baker Jack Phillips violated the state's anti-discrimination law by rebuffing gay couple David Mullins and Charlie Craig in 2012. The state law bars businesses from refusing service based on race, sex, marital status or sexual orientation.
The ruling concluded that the commission violated Phillips' religious rights under the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/04/supreme-court-rules-in-favor-of-colorado-baker-who-refused-to-make-wedding-cake-for-gay-couple-for-religious-reasons.html
Sneederbunk
(14,291 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Wonder how long until some restaurant owner refuses service to PoC on 'religious' grounds?
lapfog_1
(29,205 posts)and is not to be used by lower courts as guidance on other discrimination cases or as precedent for future supreme court decisions.
angrychair
(8,702 posts)But I fail to see how being a bigoted asshole is a religious virtue.
Religion has been used to justify everything from slavery to the holocaust. This is a true statement.
This will definitely be used to invalidate every anti discrimination law on the books...it completely supports the ideal that religious zealots have a right to spread hate and discriminate all they want.
If my closely held religious beliefs is to not hire or rent to PoC or immigrants than this ruling supports that.
Im open to any sound argument of how Im wrong.
hunter
(38,317 posts)... because all the dishes they serve are religious art, that's okay?