I Shall Open A Bakery
By Mitch Berg
I believe I’m going to open a bakery.
And at this bakery, I’m going to serve cake to pretty much everyone who wants it. White, black, straight, gay, you name it. Because everybody’s money cashes about the same.
The one exception?
I will refuse to serve giggly bobbleheads who try to weave rhetorical “gotchas” out of Christian scripture they neither understand nor appreciate.
April 2nd, 2015 at 7:39 am
Guys like these make a comfortable living making people comfortable in their biases. As with most lefties, the strawman is their ally.
April 2nd, 2015 at 7:50 am
An individual natural person has the right to freely associate – or not associate – with whom she chooses. A bakery is a Public Accommodation. A Public Accommodation does not have that right. A Public Accommodation must serve favored groups such as Disabled Persons. Disabled Persons suffer from a mental impairment which substantially limits a major life activity, such as reading comprehension. Bobblehead-ophobia is an unfair discriminatory practice. This rule is necessary for the good of all. You will serve the collective. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.
April 2nd, 2015 at 8:01 am
One of the fears about many issues is when we reach a tipping point. Where the other side is in the majority. Issues that seemed crazy years ago, are now happening.
-Where 51% of the population pays little or no taxes, but gets stuff from the gov’t. How do we then get the deficit under control? Those 51% will continue to want free stuff and have other people pay for it.
-I was in Chicago recently. Reading the Sun Times….one of the reasons Gracia is doing so well is that he has promised open borders and no immigration enforcement at all. Big Money from California (Hispanics) are supporting him for this reason. Remember, Chicago is 33% Hispanic and they want open borders. The illegal immigration is reaching a tipping point where the illegals will be on control of our policies.
-I believe there are more anti-Christian bigots in the US than true practicing Biblical Christians. True Christians (not ELCA left wing social club Christians) are now a minority in this country. Who would have thought 25 years ago that Best Buy would ban the word “Christmas”? Or that Wal-Mart would side with anti-Christian forces in Indiana. That the full force of the government would tell a 70 year old grandmother that she has to participate in a homosexual wedding ceremony or they will take her business away from her and maybe send her to jail. 25 years ago the backlash would have been so great, that things would have been reversed. Now Christians are on the run in this country.
April 2nd, 2015 at 8:15 am
My regrets: I didn’t get an early position in fire hose futures or contribute to that Kickstarter fund for a Police Dog Teeth Sharpening business. For a self-appointed “Creative Class”, the Left is not very creative in it’s methods of enforcing their version of civil rights.
PS: Would it be crass and/or immoral for me to get a deal on a “Lightly used Apple MacBook; rainbow flag sticker, a few visible bloodstains”, from the the estate of a Saudi ‘gayz’? I already have Tim Cook’s answer.
April 2nd, 2015 at 9:43 am
Madison Wisconsin just pasted an Atheist rights ordinance. I assume this will allow businesses to refuse service to peoples of faith. Are we going to see 24 hour coverage of this? is the Big 10 and NCAA going to have sanctions? (crickets)
April 2nd, 2015 at 11:13 am
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
April 2nd, 2015 at 1:26 pm
Numerous national organizations have active campaigns to encourage businesses to deny citizen’s their civil rights. They encourage businesses to ban law abiding citizens from their business and deny them their 2nd Amendment rights. They claim that the business’s property rights override those of the citizens, and besides, the business’s don’t really need the filthy lucre of those gun toters.
April 2nd, 2015 at 2:48 pm
They claim that the business’s property rights override those of the citizens
I don’t see a conflict between the two. If you want to hold a protest or carry firearms on private property, then you need to either be the owner or have the owner’s permission. If you’re not the owner, it’s entirely up to them to decide whether to grant you permission and so long as you want to hold your protest or carry a firearm on their property, they have every right to deny you and if you persist, have you arrested and expelled from their property just as they would any other trespasser.
April 2nd, 2015 at 4:50 pm
So it’s okay for a property owner to say he won’t serve people who exercise their Second Amendment rights. But I’m willing to bet if that same owner said he wouldn’t serve people who exercise their First Amendment rights to worship as Muslims, the Attorney General would make damned sure his rights as property owner are trumped by theirs.
Perhaps the real problem is that some people’s rights are more equal than others? Special pleading, special privileges, special rights, make less equality for all.