The so what is that accommodating the occasional sincere discriminator
(whatever exactly that means) by virtue of a law that could conceivably be
cited by every business places great pressures on the latter. One if the
reasons I am so sorry that Doug Laycock lost (or, more accurately, had his
v
Thanks much, Doug. I'm definitely not an expert on state treatment of local
government law, and certainly not on the specific issue of whether
Louisiana law typically treats "state" actors as including municipal actors
for statutory purposes. If it doesn't, the results would indeed be strange
-- bu
I don't doubt that this may be true for many businesses. So what? A
person might suggest that it is evidence of the religious sincerity of the
lonely business-owner who does not want to be left without discretion.
Art Spitzer
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Sandy's point held true for race discrimination. Many businesses easily
integrated when they were told they had to do so, and without much fuss. Many
probably were happy to have more business and to no longer have to be bothered
by segregation rules (which made things expensive). Equality,
Barney Frank was in Austin this evening talking about his new book. Not
surprisingly, Indiana and Arkansas came up. Not only did he emphasize the
crucial role played by business in pushing back against religious
conservatives, but he also made the very shrewd point that businesses often
actuall
A reporter told me that the sponsor was insisting that the bill has nothing to
do with suits by private citizens. Only actions by government.
Louisiana has no sexual orientation nondiscrimination law, but the reporter
said the New Orleans and Shreveport do. The bill says nothing about local
go
Apologies to my fellow list members -- I dashed off the message below
quickly before heading to class without a sufficiently close read of the
statutory language. The "benefits" clause of the"adverse action" provision
in the Louisiana bill is limited to penalties for actions taken or not
taken with
In a radio interview moments ago, the sponsor of the Louisiana bill stated
that the bill "doesn't have anything to do with the provision of goods and
services" and "doesn't have any application at all to private business
transactions." This is contrary to how the Catholic Bishops have described
the
If the state requires you to bake a cake, bake two.
Matthew 5:41
It is verses like this that make it hard for me to credit the complicity with
evil argument underlying all of these religious objections. But I know the
first amendment does not protect actual Christianity because there is no suc
Sandy,
Thanks for your thoughts. Out of curiosity, what would your proposed
protection look like in this case? Stated another way, would it be:
(a) A judicially created exception under the Free Speech clause? or
(b) A legislative exemption built into non-discrimination laws (e.g. "No
provider
Most of us no long bother to differentiate “freedom of speech” from “freedom of
expression,” but I think this is an excellent occasion to do so. I inclined to
believe that customers should not have the right to force bakers to engage in
what ordinary language would define as “speech” that offen
There was a reported story yesterday which begins:
"The Colorado Civil Rights Division has ruled that a baker who refused to make
cakes with anti-gay messages did not discriminate."
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/azucar-bakery-did-not-discriminate-by-refusing-to-115703680320.html
It goes on
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