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Comment on Colorado Supreme Court to hear case against Christian baker who refused to make LGBTQ-themed cake

Reminder that siding with the plaintiff is siding with slavery, which is defined as forced labor. We’ve already lost the thread when we ask questions like “Is the cake speech?”. Unless we want to actively support slavery, we have to let people refuse to work for other people, without purity tests on said refusal.

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Gigan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
If you own a business that is open to the pubpic you can’t discriminate based on certain things like sex, race, etc. I don’t think that counts as slavery.

The question is whether making this cake counts as speech.

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- TJD@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I agree it doesn’t count as slavery, but it’s still an infringement on people’s rights to free association and voluntary agreement.
  
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  - crashoverride@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It does not
    
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    TJD@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Do elaborate on how the government legally mandating association and business deals doesn’t violate people’s freedom to do those things (or not) of their own will
    
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PizzaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Is forcing bakers to treat black people as regular customers slavery too? Or do you think we should return to the days of Jim Crow?

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wosat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Businesses that create custom works should be able to decide what they want to create, but they shouldn’t be able to limit who they’ll sell to.

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- TJD@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Why not? Do you not believe that people have the right to free association?
  
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