I agree completely. That is NOT what I am saying. What she wanted to do--express her religious beliefs--was perfectly legal. What she couldn't do was deny those religious-celebrating services to people she just assumed wouldn't want them.
It isn't straw manning: it is the literal wording of the holding. The court turned it into straw-mann…
I agree completely. That is NOT what I am saying. What she wanted to do--express her religious beliefs--was perfectly legal. What she couldn't do was deny those religious-celebrating services to people she just assumed wouldn't want them.
It isn't straw manning: it is the literal wording of the holding. The court turned it into straw-manning by coming up with all sorts of reasons she couldn't be prevented from doing that which she couldn't be prevented from doing from the get go. THAT is where this decision is both dishonest and dangerous.
Forget about websites. You are perfectly free to offer to perform wedding services themselves reeking of Christian values, so long as you don't DENY anyone who says "OK, I'll take the reek even though I don't believe in it. But Mama wants it." No one can insist that you perform a neo-pagan wedding, because that is not what you are offering. Basic contract law. There is one contract provision the law prohibits: requiring that you have to be of a certain class of people (and excluding protective classes thereby) to take advantage of your service.
I agree completely. That is NOT what I am saying. What she wanted to do--express her religious beliefs--was perfectly legal. What she couldn't do was deny those religious-celebrating services to people she just assumed wouldn't want them.
It isn't straw manning: it is the literal wording of the holding. The court turned it into straw-manning by coming up with all sorts of reasons she couldn't be prevented from doing that which she couldn't be prevented from doing from the get go. THAT is where this decision is both dishonest and dangerous.
Forget about websites. You are perfectly free to offer to perform wedding services themselves reeking of Christian values, so long as you don't DENY anyone who says "OK, I'll take the reek even though I don't believe in it. But Mama wants it." No one can insist that you perform a neo-pagan wedding, because that is not what you are offering. Basic contract law. There is one contract provision the law prohibits: requiring that you have to be of a certain class of people (and excluding protective classes thereby) to take advantage of your service.