In 2012, a group of angry leftists hauled a cake decorator to court after he declined to design a cake celebrating a same-sex wedding because it violated his deeply-held religious beliefs about the sanctity of marriage. It bears noting that Jack Phillips, who had been decorating cakes for the Colorado community for about 20 years, didn’t deny service to the gay couple.
He happily offered to serve them for other occasions or to provide them already made cake from his store — but that was unacceptable.
Jack endured threatening phone calls, harassment, loss of business, and a Supreme Court case before emerging victorious — but not for long. Not even a month later, Jack became the target of another lawsuit when he declined to design a cake celebrating a "transgender" person’s "identity".
While that case was ultimately dropped, Jack is now ensnared in another legal fight. More than seven years and three legal battles later, Jack’s story clearly illustrates the rampant hypocrisy of the left, who know perfectly well that private enterprises can legally deny service to anyone - unless that "anyone" happens to be demanding something the left loves.
More examples abound.
The owner of Arlene’s Flowers, was targeted for declining to provide flowers for the "wedding" of a homosexual couple, despite having served the same patrons in other capacities for nine years.
Two artists and owners of a stationery store faced a similar fate.
When a group of Catholic nuns declined to provide contraceptives, in accordance with their constitutionally-protected beliefs, they too were dragged to court. The same happened to Hobby Lobby.
Where was the left's new-found regard for the rights to deny service in these cases?
I don't recall any leftists trying to force Muslim-owned businesses to do anything abhorrent to Islam.
Do you?
https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/18/when-the-left-refuses-service-theyre-preventing-violence-when-the-right-denies-service-theyre-bigots/
