Seth wrote:
The 14th Amendment guarantees all citizens equal protection under the law, but has no bearing whatsoever on the rights or lack thereof of a private businessman or a private consumer. It has no application in the Masterpiece Bakery incident.
If it did apply, it would do more to protect Phillips from being prosecuted by the state for following his religious convictions.
I understand that you folks who list to port have little or no use for religious beliefs because you don't want belief in G-d to come between a citizen and the omnipotence of the government, but I'm sorry to have to inform you that even after eight years of an Obama presidency, we are still the United States of America, not the late, unlamented Soviet Union, and the First Amendment applies more to the Masterpiece Bakery incident, meaning in Phillips' favor, than the 14th which, as I pointed out, has no relevance in that situation whatsoever.
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Seth, you can try every argument there is. It comes down to they had billions, Phillips didn't. Case closed.