Web designer won't make invites for gay couple-Dershow 11
The Dershow
Alan Dershowitz | Kast Media
4.4 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Dersh show. |
| 0:02.3 | Well, this missing is The Wits and that's provided by our listeners and our viewers and |
| 0:07.8 | the people who write comments and write letters, some of which we have time I'll read today. |
| 0:13.0 | The spring court today revisited an issue that had divided America over the years. |
| 0:19.2 | Do you remember the wedding cake case where a wedding cake artist, somebody who designed |
| 0:25.3 | wedding cakes, refused to design a wedding cake for a gay couple that was getting married. |
| 0:30.9 | The case went up to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court punted, sent it back and |
| 0:36.2 | said, now maybe we'll revisit the case at some other time. |
| 0:40.0 | Well, today they decided to revisit the case in a different context. |
| 0:43.1 | It's not today a wedding cake maker. |
| 0:47.0 | It's a web person who designs web invitations and things relating to weddings and marriages |
| 0:54.6 | and the web person said claiming religious freedom that she would not help and design anything |
| 1:05.4 | that has to do with gay marriages. |
| 1:07.2 | If you're getting married, if you're heterosexual, fine, she's happy to do your business, |
| 1:11.4 | but if you're a gay couple, male or female gay couple, now go elsewhere. |
| 1:17.4 | But there's a public accommodation law in Colorado which says, if you're in business like that, |
| 1:24.2 | you have to take everybody. |
| 1:25.4 | You can't say, you know, no Jews allowed, no Muslims allowed, no blacks allowed, no women allowed. |
| 1:31.0 | You can't say that, you have to be open for everybody. |
| 1:34.6 | And so the question is, can that Colorado statute be upheld in the face of a challenge based |
| 1:41.6 | on religion or free speech? |
| 1:44.3 | Before we get to the legal issue, I want to get something off my chest. |
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