SCOTUS Whiffs on Masterpiece Cake Ruling Ep. 80

by | Jun 5, 2018

SCOTUS Whiffs on Masterpiece Cake Ruling Ep. 80

by | Jun 5, 2018


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The Supreme Court handed down a very dissatisfying ruling in the Masterpiece case on Monday, holding in a 7-2 opinion that: “[t]he Colorado Civil Rights Commission’s actions in assessing a cakeshop owner’s reasons for declining to make a cake for a same-sex couple’s wedding celebration violated the free exercise clause.” This ruling, which was narrow in scope, failed to decide the fundamental issue in the case, which had more to do with compelled speech than free exercise. Of course, we libertarians understand that the real fundamental issue here is property rights, and neither compelled speech nor free exercise.
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Show Notes:
SCOTUSblog: Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission
Opinion analysis: Court rules (narrowly) for baker in same-sex-wedding-cake case [Updated]
The SCOTUS Decision
Masterpiece’s Reply Brief
Symposium: Anti-discrimination laws do not compel commercial-merchant speech (an opposing view)

Patrick Macfarlane

Patrick Macfarlane

Patrick MacFarlane is the Justin Raimondo Fellow at the Libertarian Institute where he advocates a noninterventionist foreign policy. He is a Wisconsin attorney in private practice. He is the host of the Vital Dissent at www.vitaldissent.com, where he seeks to oppose calamitous escalation in US foreign policy by exposing establishment narratives with well-researched documentary content and insightful guest interviews. His work has appeared on antiwar.com, GlobalResearch.ca, and Zerohedge. He may be reached at patrick.macfarlane@libertyweekly.net

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