XPost: rec.food.baking, alt.politics.usa.constitution, alt.politics.republicans   
   XPost: alt.politics.homosexuality, misc.legal   
   From: none@none.com   
      
   On 10/18/2018 10:22 AM, Josh Rosenbluth wrote:   
   > On 10/18/2018 9:39 AM, Peter Franks wrote:   
   >> On 10/17/2018 2:29 PM, Josh Rosenbluth wrote:   
   >   
   > {snip}   
   >   
   >>>> What right is violated by not baking a cake?   
   >>>   
   >>> I answered the question (negatively impacts the pursuit of happiness,   
   >>> and as a result harms the nation).   
   >>   
   >> Are you suggesting that I can demand anyone and everyone provide   
   >> whatever I desire in my pursuit of happiness?   
   >   
   > No.  I am saying the government can punish a baker for not serving   
   > someone because it is securing a right.   
      
   Does the baker have the right to not bake a cake?   
      
   >>> We just happen to disagree on whether that is a right.   
   >>   
   >> Disagree on what?  The right to compel?   
   >   
   > We disagree about whether the government is securing a right when it   
   > punishes a baker for not serving someone.   
      
   What if there is no baker.  Is the right still infringed?   
      
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