{"id":13616,"date":"2017-06-30T01:27:05","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T08:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=13616"},"modified":"2017-07-02T09:20:42","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:20:42","slug":"bake-the-musical-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2017\/06\/30\/bake-the-musical-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Bake The Musical Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

     When a baker (or a florist or photographer) refuse to use their personal creative abilities to promote and endorse a same-sex wedding, we are told that the baker has surrendered their 1st<\/sup> Amendment rights because they are making money off of providing their services. Who is being served, and what is being served, is conflated, and incorrectly so.<\/p>\n

     But if a business has no 1st<\/sup> Amendment rights to refuse to facilitate a message they disagree with, then by what moral<\/em> right do they claim to punish people for stating unapproved beliefs<\/em> outside of the service<\/em> and message<\/em> they had already happily agreed to?<\/p>\n

     None, of course. But that didn’t stop Castle Face Records from dropping the band Dream Machine<\/a> from the label despite happily releasing their debut record!<\/p>\n