Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Alito Said WHAT?! SCOTUS Hears ANOTHER Challenge To LGBT Anti-Discrimination Laws" video.

@Alarik52 Twitter is an example. Facebook, YouTube, etc.
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I have.
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@brendansherry8737 The baker won his case on narrower grounds: they didn't reach the First Amendment issue because he was never accorded his due process rights to challenge the rule applied against him by the Colorado commission. So, in a certain way, that case was a lot worse -- when someone challenges a rule on First Amendment grounds, they should receive the process that is due to them, for an issue of that importance.
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Actually, she can't refuse to serve a client based on their status. When she opens for business, she has to serve whoever shows up. The issue is, if they can't agree on the website design based on her religious beliefs, the client should not be able to sue her. She doesn't have to design a pro-marriage equity website anymore than she should have to design a pro-jihad website or a satanic website. That's her argument. This case never came to that. There is no client she couldn't satisfy, who then sued her for discrimination. It's a little odd that way. Tenuous standing.
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@adityaprakash1080 What state would that be?
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@ericswart3786 Of course. Strange that people are unaware of the eugenics movement. It's hard to know whether the choice to use birth control would have been as widely accepted as it was, when it was, without the support of eugenics.
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No one is compelling her. Read the briefs in the case.
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@Redbird1504 I will have to read the briefs to see how she had standing to make a hypothetical claim, since no one has done anything to compel her at all. First Amendment law does have the concept of prior restraint, so that could be how she got standing.
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Clearly you did not read that case. The First Amendment issue was never reached in that case, because the baker was not accorded his constitutional due process rights when he made his claim.
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@TS-lw5nv The Court needs to be expanded. Once the number of justices is raised, other administrations will have the same opportunity to fill vacancies.
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@TS-lw5nv Apart from the current political debate, the Court really is too small. It cannot take all the cases it needs to. Conservatives have swamped the Court with Justices who do not have the qualifications that previous Justices were expected to have -- just compare the biographies of the most recent appointees with those they replaced. There should have been no nomination during a national emergency when voting in the presidential election had already started. Nor should Biden have been imposed on us by the DNC, nor should the contents of Hunter's missing laptop have been hidden from the public. Nor should Senators who were briefed on COVID in late 2019 have been allowed to trade stocks on the information. You have no one caring about principles at all anymore, at any level. No good guys in this picture.
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@TS-lw5nv DUH. I worked for it.
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@TS-lw5nv Do you know what a petition for certiorari is? You know why so many are denied, compared with previous generations?
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@timmeyer9191 Excellent point. I am exhaling. Thanks for that. A business has to open its doors to everyone. It cannot discriminate based on race, creed, color, marital status, gender or gender expression, etc., etc. If the designer and the client can't come to an agreement on the custom design the client wants, then the designer loses the business and the client goes elsewhere. Ultimately, the loss to the business in time spent without generating revenue is usually going to be greater than the loss to the client, who will undoubtedly find a designer who can create a nice website for them.
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@ScottHeritage Of course not. But suppose someone who happens to have a disability wants to decorate a cake with Satanic symbols, should a baker have to do it? Would they be able to decline the person without a disability, but have to do it for the person with a disability? That's the crux of the matter. Could Kanye West order a cake with swastikas on it because he's black, or has episodes of bipolar disorder?
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