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Xavier_Onassis

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Re: Free speech was nice while it lasted.
« Reply #75 on: August 17, 2015, 07:33:23 PM »
What is wrong about it?

Is it because of something you heard in Church?
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Re: Free speech was nice while it lasted.
« Reply #76 on: August 17, 2015, 08:07:00 PM »

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This is obviously some sort of test case, otherwise the couple would have just told the bigoted baker to kiss off and found a different bakery. So it is not really about free speech at all, it is about symbolically using the government to punish either gays for wanting to get married or bakers for refusing to bake a cake to show they disapprove.

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LOL, 'pro-traditional marriage cake' my ass...

From the article:

However, when Shoebat.com decided to call thirteen pro-gay bakeries and ask for the words “Gay Marriage Is Wrong”, they were met with insults and hatred. In short, they were met with the same intolerance that the people wanting “Support Gay Marriage” cakes were met with at Christian bakeries… yet these pro-gay bakeries had no backlash against them.

They were gay bashing, pure and simple.

Bingo again!

Trolling for unco-operative bakeries is just bashing or suit seeking.

Should this not be fair in both directions?

Xavier_Onassis

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Re: Free speech was nice while it lasted.
« Reply #77 on: August 18, 2015, 08:50:56 AM »
The fact that there are ignorant fools on one side of an argument does not in any way indicate that the fools on the other side are less ignorant.

Refusal to bake a cake is not really free speech, and is a trivial matter.
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Re: Free speech was nice while it lasted.
« Reply #78 on: August 18, 2015, 11:39:51 AM »
The fact that there are ignorant fools on one side of an argument does not in any way indicate that the fools on the other side are less ignorant.



A frank admission?

Xavier_Onassis

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Re: Free speech was nice while it lasted.
« Reply #79 on: August 18, 2015, 01:44:58 PM »
Anyone who makes a big whoop de doo about refusing to bake a cake as freedom of speech, whether the cake is pro- or anti-gay, is a dolt.
The fact that some anti-gay types want to force a gay baker to bake a cake with an anti-gay message is just as dumb as the reverse situation.
No one changes anything by writing slogans on cake with icing.

This is as almost as trivial as writing "WASH ME" in the dust on a dirty car. I imagine someone would like to sue over that as well.

The car should be washed, and writing this is free speech.
But the car is private property, and no on has the right to write anything in MY dust on MY car.

"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana."