Welcome to the resistance says Uber driver as he kicks out Republican riders

They targeted the guys business. Who goes to the supreme court over a cake.

 

Treating people badly is bad news. I don't care if the baker doesn't approve of same-sex marriage. He doesn't have to marry another guy.

I ran an auto repair firm and later educated high schoolers and adults. I did my best to treat everyone with respect whether or not I saw things their way.

 

1) in the middle of the ride? Seriously?
2) he doesn't own Uber, he works for Uber
3)to be equivalent to the baker the baker would have promised to make the cake and then the day before the wedding called them up and declared he changed his mind and wasn't going to make it after all. I would have less of a problem if the Uber driver had denied them immediately instead of half way through the ride.

This is why Trump's chance of winning reelection is growing every day because of infantile antics from the left. If he is reelected we all know who to blame.

 

Yeah, I do think they went after the guy.

 

Yes.

While I agree that the baker had the right to refuse the gay wedding (because of the personal and artistic nature of a wedding cake), if I were a baker, I'd take any customer, and do whatever they want on the wedding cake. I say this as a conservative Christian. I just think it makes no common sense to refuse somebody's business, unless its a job that I can't do. I also don't think that even though my church disapproves of gay marriage that it is anything against my freedom of religion to make that gay couple a cake. However, I also don't think that my views of religion should govern the behavior of others. Let the guy refuse to make a wedding cake for a gay wedding. It's fine with me.

I would have no problem if the uber guy had realized that they were Republicans before they got into the car, and refused them then. I just think once the transaction started, he should have just driven them to their spot.

 

Would you put a naked picture of your wife on the cake?

 

He did not refuse to serve a gay couple. He told them that they could purchase any item for sale in his shop.


He refused to make a custom cake in support of a ceremony which violated his religious beliefs.


Plus the gay couple cherry-picked that particular bakery because they knew his views. They were looking to make a statement by forcing agreement with their views.

 

Part of the year in Corvallis, Oregon; part of the year in British Columbia, Canada; and traveling the rest of the time. Oregon replaces California in my life.

 

No, but I would put a naked picture of your wife(only if she approved) on the cake.

 

Man that thing would sell in a second.

I ask because clearly you draw the line somewhere, when you said you didn't. Everyone does.

Either you have a standard, or you have individual subjective decisions being made on what is, and what is not, acceptable.

It is one thing to expect a muslim or christian baker to simply sell a cake to a gay couple, it is quite another.to FORCE them to effectively participate by using their artistic talents in something they are morally opposed to.

A muslim baker in the US should be expected to sell an in-stock item to anyone who wants it, but should not be required to bake a pig cake as a special order and make them decorate it in bacon.

 

Muslim cab drivers at some major US airports are expected to allow customers with bottles of alcohol to be in their cabs despite their religion.

 

While refusing to pick up Republicans would be legal, accepting the contract and then leaving them stranded is not. This would make a GREAT lawsuit and they should sue the driver.

 

No, it has no relevancy to the cake case. What would be relevant would be if the baker took the job - and then kept making excuses for delay - and then the day before the wedding had laughed and said "welcome to the resistance against homosexuality." THAT would be similar.

 

And are these Muslim drivers in proximity to the evil alcohol expected to sell alcohol or pour it for their customers?

I mean they're already subjected to not being able to beat their wives and having to look at women sans portable tent.

The horror.

I bet you thought you had a point here.

 

LOL not it isn't.

 

Denial of Service laws say otherwise.

 

It's like they're not even trying sometimes.

 

Yea, what this driver did can be construed as kidnapping and possible unlawful detention. The guy isn't free and clear and out the woods.

 

First thing I thought of was this is abduction. This piece of **** needs to go to jail.

 

When you get the Supreme Court ruling it's OK for a baker to discriminate on the basis of sexual persuasion then you can expect other businesses to begin discriminating on their personal preferences.The floodgates have been opened.

 

Sigh, when will people realize that it nowhere near the same thing.

 

Usually the gay couple gets awarded $100,000 while the Republican Uber passenger will get squat.

 

To me here is the difference.

The baker up front when the request was made deigned service. In the Uber case the driver accepted their request, stopped without completing the understood and agreed upon service. This would be equivalent to the baker talking the job and getting the cake baked, but refusing to decorate it.

 

Yes, but I doubt they have a rule that allows a driver to stop midway through a fair and kick people out unless the driver is being threatened. If they did, Uber would not be looking in to this incident.

 

The Christian Baker would have declined to bake a cake for two people of the same sex, regardless of their sexual orientation. Had nothing to do with their sexual orientation.