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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is dumb. If you don't want to bake a cake for a protected class of people, then don't open a bakery.[/quote]

That's where there is disagreement.  Homosexuals are not a federally protected class, although local laws are more of a patchwork.  And many people who find their behavior deeply troubling don't think they should be a protected class.  Imagine being forced to rent a room in your home to a gay couple of you disapprove of gay sex.  And unlike race, which is inherited and immutable, the evidence is still out on homosexuality.  While it may be the way it is for some, there is no doubt that others choose that lifestyle.[/quote]

The complaint wasn't made under federal law.  The bakery is in Oregon where sexual orientation is a protected class.  Whether or not people think it should be, it currently is.  The bakery had an obligation to follow the current law.

Renting rooms in your own home has long been an allowable exception to fair housing law, under what's called the "Mrs. Murphy exemption", so your example is highly flawed.

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