In a nutshell, it’s that the case is indeed about compelled speech, which the court has historically said is unconstitutional. The left would like to make it about public accommodation, but since he would do business with homosexuals in other cases, that one falls.
“In addition to the ERLC, others filing briefs in support of Phillips included 86 members of Congress, 20 states or governors of states, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian Legal Society, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Agudath Israel of America, the libertarian Cato Institute, National Black Religious Broadcasters and National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.”
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In a nutshell, it’s that the case is indeed about compelled speech, which the court has historically said is unconstitutional. The left would like to make it about public accommodation, but since he would do business with homosexuals in other cases, that one falls.
Aspiring to be a stick in the mud.
New“In addition to the ERLC,
“In addition to the ERLC, others filing briefs in support of Phillips included 86 members of Congress, 20 states or governors of states, Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Christian Legal Society, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Agudath Israel of America, the libertarian Cato Institute, National Black Religious Broadcasters and National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference.”
http://www.bpnews.net/50014/high-court-weighs-cake-artists-liberty
David R. Brumbelow