There's an awful lot to write about today that's disturbing: looming abuse of Presidential power, ICE ripping children from their parents at the border and Scott Pruitt's strange desire for a used Trump hotel mattress. But instead we're going to focus on cake.
As in, to our friends and loved ones in the gay community: If you want to get a wedding cake, don't order it from one lousy bakery in Colorado. But you'll probably be okay if you have it baked by somebody else.
If not, as the Supreme Court appeared to caution today, they may rule differently next time — because in this single instance, in the eyes of the court the Colorado Civil Rights Commission did not fairly consider the baker's religious views. The justices ruled on the minutiae of this particular case but punted on the larger question of discrimination against LGBTQ customers in the marketplace.
As much as we understand the details of it — we're not lawyers, but we try — we cats are still annoyed with today's decision. Because anything that gives religious freaks cause to celebrate is irritating. But at 7-2, it was not close, and we have resigned ourselves to the fact that these questions linger because we live in a country that was founded in part on the concept of religious freedom. (Unlike Canada, for instance, to which explorers and entrepreneurs flocked to make a buck.)
But it's still Pride Month. You guys can still get married. SCOTUS has not given a green light to businesses to discriminate against gay people, and nobody's going back. We cats HISS and PURR at the same time.
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