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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is not legal, I'm surprised by the number of people who think it is. Businesses that offer services to the general public cannot deny services to a customer based on his or her race. The bakery/gay customer case is a different issue, I won't bore anyone with specifics.[/quote]

No, please do bore us with the specifics. I want to know how it is different, [/quote]

DP. The cake one also involved freedom of speech and religion issues. The gay couple wasn't just trying to buy a cake off the shelf, they wanted to baker to write some kind of message on the cake that was against the baker's religious belief (I don't remember specifically). Just refusing to sell them an already made plain cake probably would have been illegal.[/quote]

The baker was more like an artist and the couple wanted the artist to design a custom cake. It was decided that they could not force an artist to do that. A cake from their catalogue would have been different.[/quote]

Exactly. Just like if I walked into an artist's studio/gallery and asked them to paint me a painting of somethign they didn't want to paint. They can turn down that custom work request. However, if they have paintings for sale in the shop, they can't deny to sell it to me because of my race or orientation.[/quote]

So in this example the class is in the catalogue and they are telling people of the wrong hue that it's not for them solely based on race, it's hard to argue that's ok. Maybe a work around is to just have a group of people create a "private class" that isn't otherwise open to anyone not in the private group because they have filled all these spots.[/quote]

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