LGB ErasureExample of "forced teaming" - r/lgbt post with 1.7k upvotes claims, "not a single one of us has rights til all of us has rights"

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[–]MyLongestJourney 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Wait,is this the Supreme Court decision that the Reddit OP and the rest of the tools are wailing about ?

Supreme Court says 1st Amendment entitles web designer to refuse same-sex wedding work.

Talk about a hysteric overreaction. Everyone in the comment section behaves as if the Supreme court banned same sex marriage or made a ruling allowing the various States to ban gay marriage if they chose to do so.

The court simply ruled that a Christian web designer can not be forced to compose a message she disapproves off due to her personal beliefs. This reminds me of the other incident with the Christian baker who got persecuted for refusing to write on top of the wedding cake,but did not refuse to bake the cake.He even offered to provide the gay couple with materials and instructions on how to write what they wished on their cake. Why don't stupid activists concentrate on things that really matter?

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Yeah it's a series of lawsuits in Colorado. They created a law which can be interpreted extremely broadly so people keep bringing lawsuits trying to bankrupt small business who refuse to "speak" support for gay things. I do think this case was brought by the business owner though because the state preemptively went after her before anyone even sued.

[–]MyLongestJourney 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

They created a law which can be interpreted extremely broadly so people keep bringing lawsuits trying to bankrupt small business who refuse to "speak" support for gay things

Oh that is going to win us a lot of allies /s

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The supreme court already ruled that the law can't be used to force a wedding cake baker to decorate a cake with gay iconography. In my mind that means the state law should be struck down but it wasn't and that very same baker is being sued again to make a gender transition cake under the same law. The decision this week was AGAIN coming from the same law and trying to assert that a website designer must design websites for gay weddings. I don't know what it takes to just eliminate the law which is causing the cases to keep going up to the supreme court.

[–]SwampOphelia 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That law really needs to be struck down. There is a lot of precedent that compelled speech is unconstitutional.

[–]reluctant_commenter[S] 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

He even offered to provide the gay couple with materials and instructions on how to write what they wished on their cake. Why don't stupid activists concentrate on things that really matter?

Wow, I didn't know that detail.