Judge Nap: SCOTUS Bakery Ruling Is ‘a Dangerous Opinion’ Because It Will Allow Others to Discriminate

‘It will allow others to say my religious beliefs prohibit me from dealing with women or Italians or African-Americans and they’ll base it on the logic in this case’

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NAPOLITANO: "OK. The state of Colorado enforces its own version of its own civil rights laws which says you may not discriminate if you have a public accommodation, which is what a bake shop is. Anybody can walk in there and if they can pay for the cake you have to sell it to them on the basis of sexual orientation. The baker says my discrimination is rooted in my religious beliefs. The Supreme Court found that the state of Colorado has a duty under the First Amendment to be scrupulously neutral in religious beliefs. But yet taking the words of some of the Colorado officials who enforced this regulation, they were not neutral, they were hostile, they were hostile to the Christian belief that marriage is between one man and one woman. So with respect to this case and this case only, the baker prevails because the baker’s decision not to bake the cake is rooted in his religious beliefs. I think this is a dangerous opinion because it will allow others to say my religious beliefs prohibit me from dealing with women or Italians or African-Americans and they’ll base it on the logic in this case."

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