It's Hot, it's Humid and Nasty - Let's have a discussion
 

This weather drives me indoors, so this morning I had the TV on while I was working around the house and I heard something that caught my attention:

A Baker won his case in the Supreme Court to not have to bake the wedding cake for a same sex couple's wedding.

Personally I have no interest in this case one way or the other, my only interest is if you don't want to bake a cake for someone why can't you just refuse. I am aware and know and understand all the legal arguments, but it still seems ridiculous that this would have ended up in the Supreme Court. What a crazy world we are making.

FYI..It's humid here in Maine also ..Rain and 49 degrees...But I love it

I agree...how is this news??!! So-called news MUST be sensationalized to keep the viewers (readers).

If I recall, the baker did refuse but the couple pushed the discrimination issue against the baker and tried to force him to bake for them.

Old folks convertible road rally yesterday - had to put the heater on. Also the furnace went on here in the Adirondack's last two nights. I'll just have to suffer. It is 55 degrees now at 1:30 pm. Think I'm going to light a fire.

Forcing someone to bake you a cake is a *CLEAR* violation of the 13th Amendment.
It is a violation of property rights...Self-Ownership.
How this even got to the supreme court proves America is failing as a civil society.

Been going on a really long time.

Couple wanted cake
Baker did say no
Couple sued on basis of discrimination since it was public place
court
court
blah blah blah
Wow they can decide who they bake for.
Now others are talking about the doom of our civilization if people can discriminate who can roll around in their cakes.

:icon_hungry:

Why would you WANT a cake from someone who doesn't want your business. Take pleasure in spending the money elsewhere---like Village pickleball courts, for example.

We're also in the Adirondacks and just turned on our pellet stove.

What a nice sob story!

Why didn't the same-sex couple go to another bakery or why did they insist the baker place two male figurines on the cake? Why not just accept flowers or whatever? Obviously they wanted to see if they could rock the boat and perhaps hoping to make some money off the lawsuit. Because they had other options, I have no sympathy or empathy for them.

Another nice sob story.

Personally I have no interest in this case one way or the other, my only interest is if you don't want to bake a cake for someone why can't you just refuse. I am aware and know and understand all the legal arguments, but it still seems ridiculous that this would have ended up in the Supreme Court. What a crazy world we are making.

They got their five minutes of fame.

Speaking of weather, I have sweat dripping from places that shouldn't be dripping. Probably not getting any catcalls today...........Oh, wrong thread.

Well, if the baker had been forced to bake the cake, he might have been sorely tempted to lace the chocolate icing with ex lax...