The Tom Woods Show, episode 1173.

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Hi everybody. Tom Woods here. I'm all by myself today.

I'm going to be reviewing the case of Masterpiece Cake Shop versus Colorado Civil Rights

Commission.

This is the case of the Christian Baker who wouldn't sell a cake to a same-sex couple.

And we're going to talk about what the court's ruling was based on,

and I'm going to talk about really every aspect of it, because I'm going to look at the justices who concurred in the decision but had additional arguments and points to raise,

and I'm also going to talk about the dissenting judgment that we see here.

Judge Ginsburg wrote a dissent, and I'm going to talk about that.

But I want to go through point by point what the arguments are and then give maybe a bird's

eye overview of how a libertarian ought to look at this, because there's a lot of specific argumentation

relating to cakes versus wedding cakes specifically versus wedding cakes that have frosting on them

with a message. And then, in fact, Justice Thomas, in his concurring opinion, has a lengthy

passage on the historic significance of the

wedding cake. And it just reminds you that if we just observed libertarianism, we could save

ourselves a lot of this trouble. Going into the weeds of all the nitpicking significance of

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