warnmar10 wrote:spectre wrote:Playing Devil's Advocate, how is this different than a bakery refusing to make a cake for a gay wedding?
If a gay person walks into a bakery to buy a cake out of the cooler the baker can't refuse to sell the gay person a cake just because ze are gay. That's public accommodation and you can't discriminate based on race, sex, religion, sexual orientation and whatnot.
On the other hand the baker can, or should be able to, refuse to make a cake with a two groom topper inscribed "Cameron & Mitchell, Wishing you the very best days of your life as Husband and Husband." Do you see the difference there?
I don't think the police are a protected class from a public accommodation standpoint. A business should be allowed to refuse service to police if that's what they want to do. But what if a black, female, gay, handicapped Jewish police officer with a speech impediment tried to buy a cheeseburger?
There is no federal or Texas law prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in public accommodation. There are in some locations but not here, yet.