That's a Novel Idea

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[–]ballooon 5 insightful - 6 fun5 insightful - 5 fun6 insightful - 6 fun -  (8 children)

Are we going to force the Twitter and Google bakeries to bake a gay cake?

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    [–]madcow-5 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    The "bake" the cake argument is also misleading.

    It's painted as if they refused to do any business with gay people. They were willing to sell them any of the cakes they baked. They didn't want to design a custom cake / do the art for it because it was against their religion. That's no different than demanding a Muslim draw a picture of Muhammed eating a hot-dog. Or better yet, forcing a gay cake decorator to decorate one with bible verses saying gay people are abominations.

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      [–]madcow-5 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

      Yeah, the whole thing, in each instance, was a total political witch-hunt if you looked beyond the MSM headlines and the SNL skits. Good on you for handling your wedding like a normal person who just wants to get married.

      [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

      nah the cake is actually more important

      [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

      Forcing ICANN and its friends to give everyone a field to grow some wheat would be better. But if "selling to gays harms business" isn't a fair excuse, "selling to [other undesirables] harms business" shouldn't work too.

      There may be some differences between ownership and subscription, but corporations insist on making everything a subscription, and most subscriptions are factually indistinguishable from goods.

      But granting everyone access to basic infrastructure, so that existing systems can be replaced the moment they betray people, would be better. Since all systems that can affect the economy, inevitable become corrupted over time.

      It's a good thing that we all live under capitalism, a system that doesn't allow the government to arbitrarily regulate the economy.

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

      Yes.