The Supreme Court rules in favor of religious bakers, Democrats struggle for the House

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from the left is, oh my God, the Supreme Court has stood with religious people against gay people.

That's what the Supreme Court just did. Okay, first of all,

here is my view of this case and every other case like it. I do not believe that it is the government's job to tell you who you can and cannot do business with. And that includes discrimination. Okay, I'm open about this. I think that if you want to discriminate against a Jew, that is your problem. And you know what I will do? I will go start an alternative business and I will run you out of business. I will go to the business across the street and they will get my patronage and they will run you out of business. I think this is true across the board. I don't see why this is a freedom of religion issue per se, because it seems like this unparallible to me. Now I understand this is unpalatable to people because we have this weird idea in America that if you don't like something, it ought to be illegal? Well, I don't like a lot of things. I don't think they ought to be illegal. I'm not a same-sex marriage fan. I don't think it ought to be illegal. I'm libertarian on same-sex marriage. I think the government should get completely out of the business of marriage. Well, just as I am libertarian on the issue of same-sex marriage, I'm libertarian on the issue of whether a business order ought to be forced to cater to a particular population. Even if that business owner is a jerk,

even if that business owner ought to be forced to cater to a particular population.

Even if that business owner is a jerk, even if that business owner is a racist or a homophobe, well, you want to be a racist or homophob? Guess what? You're going to go out of business, because that's the way the market works. Capitalism is the single greatest force for tolerance in the history of humanity, not government control from above. Okay, so that's my perspective on this. But this case doesn't go that far. It also doesn't go as far as to even say that religious people have a right to act religiously in their business. The case doesn't even say that if you are a baker, that you have the right to reject catering to a same-sex wedding. Instead, this case has decided 7 to 2 on the narrowest possible grounds, and that is the Colorado Civil Rights Commission is mean. Really, that's how the case was decided. The case is written by Anthony Kennedy, who is an excreble justice, just an awful, awful justice. He has never seen a copy of the Constitution, apparently, and so he just sort of wanders around in his bathrobe, and depending on whether he had his metamusel-led bowel movement that morning, he decides how to rule. So here was his ruling today, delivering the opinion of the court. And this is a nonsensical ruling. It's a nonsensical ruling because it doesn't get to any key issue. It's good for the particular baker in this case, but it does not establish a broad principle that religious people can actually act religiously in their businesses, which you would assume would be protected by freedom of religion. I mean, when I say freedom of religion,

generally what I mean is my ability to act religiously throughout my life, including in my business. That's not what the Supreme Court says. Instead, they simply evade the issue. So the court holds, and this is in the court's summary. This is the summary of the case. At the very beginning of every case, the court puts out basically a summary of the ruling. Here's what they hold.

The laws and the Constitution can and in some instances must protect gay persons and gay

couples in the exercise of their civil rights, but religious and philosophical objections

to gay marriage are protected views and in some instances protected forms of expression.

Which is extraordinarily

vague. While it is unexceptionable that Colorado law can protect gay persons in acquiring products

and services on the same terms and conditions as are offered to other members of the public,

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