Yesterday on Bill LuMaye’s program, this issue came up — is it a violation of the law for a bakery to decline to bake special, rainbow-colored “gay” cupcakes?
For the details, go here.
A very authoritarian fellow called in to instruct LuMaye that the law was entirely (and apparently he thought, rightly) on the side of the complaining party because gays are now a “protected class” in the US.
What that means is that some citizens have rights (more accurately, pseudo-rights) that other citizens do not. The owners of the bakery can be charged with a legal violation if they decline to bake special cupcakes for a gay group, but are entirely free to decline an order from, say, me, if I wanted special cupcakes to commemorate, say, the birthday of Patrick Henry. If I don’t get what I want, I just have to go elsewhere and look for a bakery that wants to enter into a contract. But if the gay group doesn’t get what it wants, it’s entitled to complain and have the state punish the bakery owner for saying no.
All of this special rights, protected class baloney tears at the foundation of civilization — equal rights for all. Orwell warned about this in Animal Farm.
