Tag: Wedding Cake

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As @majestyk and others have noted the legal merits (or lack thereof) of the dessert course of the culture wars I thought we should stand back and marvel at the tenacity of the couple who (for their planned wedding in Massachusetts) traveled all over this great land in search of that rarest of rarities: the […]

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In a Facebook post, Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson appears to explain why the State should be allowed to force bakers and florists to participate in gay weddings even if such participation goes against their religious beliefs:

[A]nti-discrimination laws do not, and cannot, abridge fundamental First Amendment rights. I know of no one who reasonably disagrees. In the highly unlikely event that a Nazi would demand that a Jewish baker decorate a cake with a Nazi symbol, the courts, common sense, and common decency — not to mention the First Amendment — all combine to protect that baker from having to do so. It’s not an issue, except when distorted for purposes of gotcha politics.

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This story was told to me and now I’m telling it to you. I can’t tell you where I heard it. I don’t want any knocks on the door late at night. I don’t want any trouble. It’s about a couple. Let’s call them John and Marsha, which, of course, aren’t their real names but […]

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