07-02-2016, 11:54 PM
(07-02-2016, 08:51 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(07-02-2016, 04:11 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Figure that in this hypothetical situation I own the bakery and all I care about is making money without doing something harmful to my business. That's how free enterprise works. A wedding cake for a same-sex couple will not cause me problems. A wedding cake with the words "F--- YOU" on it could cause problems.
Well, just anticipate that some in the government will be making practicing discrimination bad for your business.
I so expect. An employer can make some accommodations to the religious beliefs of an employee, but no undue sacrifices of his profit or survival in business.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.