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Originally Posted by The Dad Fisherman
I mentioned a Glass Swastika earlier...if a Group of White Supremists came in and asked you to make one for them....would you?...knowing full well that your name will be attached to it as soon as it leaves your door.
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Sorry guys, I had a quick jump to San Francisco late last week immediately followed by an interview in Detroit yesterday.
TDF Not sure that's a good analogy.
A wedding cake for the most part is a commodity item. Sure there are basic ones and fancy ones but it's a generally accepted service that vendors provide to the community. I'm not aware of any provision that you actually have to be getting married to order a wedding cake.
A glass swastika would be a one off special request and an odd one at that. I've been to Nebe's shop recently and while there are various vases, bowls, ornaments, paperweights and other non-functional yet beautiful things they all have a generally accepted artistic or functional purpose and are standard offerings of his business or any other glass makers business.
It's not the same thing.
And all the talk about Federal Constitutional stuff here needs to be put in context of
Colorado law, which specifically prohibits a place of public accommodation (i.e. a bakery) from selectively denying service based on sexual orientation.
So I'd think that if the cake they were ordering was a somewhat standard cake the vendor would be violating state law.
-spence