They did. So did the Masterpiece guy lose his case, permitting the local government - and a bunch of haters - shut him down after decades of just doing his baking. The Supreme Court addressed that travesty.
However the Court didn't address the issue. They objected to the fact that the commission showed obvious prejudice. To my knowledge, it's still perfectly OK to have rules requiring someone in commerce to deal with all customers.
No. There's no excision involved. I've looked at older argument on racial issues. They are based on actual Biblical texts. They simply apply those texts in ways never intended by the authors. Just as in current cases.
No one shut Masterpiece Bakery down, the owner chose to do that himself rather than follow the law and treat all customers with dignity and respect.
The death threats and damage and supplier harassment became an issue for the owner of Masterpiece, actually. He had always done weddings, and suddenly, after 30 years, local officials demanded he expand beyond the limits of his religious faith and teaching the definition of what constitutes a wedding. He refused. Harassment ensued.
Sometimes excision is the issue. Sometimes misuse and twisting, as you say, for the racial issues.
The commission demonstrated religious bigotry against one they said was discriminating against others. Ironic.
You might be surprised. Here's a Muslim scholar's view. A Muslim perspective on the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. While I can't find the story, someone called several Muslim bakers asking about this scenario, and they had no problem.
what death threats? None were ever reported to the police.
what damage?
what harassment?
Business owners can wave a bible all they like but they still can't refuse to serve black people
remember the couple had already married in another state
I'd ask for evidence of this but this is just a well known lie put out by hate groups
another lie
you mean like business owners who discriminate
in 2015 Steven Crowder of Louder with Crowder did just that. he went to 17 Islamic bakers in the Detroit area, laughably pretend to be gay and tried to order a wedding cake. He claimed that three of those bakeries refused him....turned out he lied, one of the bakeries only baked bread, a second only catered traditional Lebanese weddings which don't include cakes of any sort and at a third he edited out the fact that he filled out the wedding cake order form.
There's this cool new thing called 'Protestantism', if you're dissatisfied with Catholicism, you might want to give it a try.
