{"id":6277,"date":"2014-07-23T00:06:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:06:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2014-07-23T00:06:55","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T07:06:55","slug":"queering-the-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2014\/07\/23\/queering-the-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"Queering the Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

     Cakes and Gay Marriages are back in the news, this time in Northern Ireland.\u00a0 A baker is facing legal action for refusing to bake a cake showing Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street that explicitly states “support gay marriage<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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     Aside from copyright issues, this is unlike previous cases in the United States involving bakers refusing to bake cakes for Gay Weddings, this cake is a purely political message:<\/p>\n

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“[Ashers Baking Co.] believe that producing the cake with the slogan and the logo of QueerSpace, a gay rights group the would-be customer supports, would amount to endorsing the campaign for the introduction of gay marriage in the province, and go against their religious convictions.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

     The argument used against previous bakers was that they offered wedding cakes and that refusing to serve a couple because they are gay is discrimination, and that such anti-discrimination measures trump the 1st<\/sup> Amendment\u2026 despite such marriages not being legal in the baker’s own state!\u00a0 Here, that excuse does not hold.<\/p>\n

     After all, a Christian baker should no more be forced to apply his or her artistic talents to support Gay Marriage than a Jewish baker should be forced to bake a cake with a Swastika for Neo-NAZIs.\u00a0 Otherwise, the law would not be viewpoint neutral.\u00a0 Undoubtedly, that is the ultimate goal here: To Force people to express correct<\/em> opinions, by making such acquiescence to the correct<\/em> opinion a condition for being able to work.<\/p>\n

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