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Showing Original Post only (View all)Teapublicans now say that cakes are “Speech”. Really. Yes, really. [View all]
https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2015/04/02/teapublicans-now-say-that-cakes-are-speech-really-yes-really/Source info at the link.
Speech is the latest extraconstitutional workaround for anything illegal that Repubs want to get away with. Citizens United is the most egregious example: by defining money as speech, the Roberts Court removed almost every restriction against political spending, AKA bribery. It also means that those people with more money have more free speech.
See how it works? By sneaking something odious and corrupt under the protection of the First Amendment, Teapublicans make said odious thing almost impossible to control or even keep track of. That is how the criminal enterprise known as the GOP rolls.
So this morning, Mr. B & C was driving to The Place That Pays Him To Go There, and heard a Babtist preacher on the radio further attempt to add discriminatory practices against LGBTQ citizens as protected by the First Amendment. Specifically: he claimed that a cake was speech.
Again: Teavangelicals want wedding cakes classed as speech. Christ on a Kitchen Aid. This is ridiculous, but sadly not all that unusual. The Babtist Boyo says that a baker (or pizza maker, florist, etc.) is providing speech via their pastries and such. Thus it would be a violation of a bakers free speech rights to have to bake a cake for a gay person. Seriously, he says that. Click the link and listen for yourself.
Teapublicans clearly wouldnt know speech if it bit them on their wedding tackle. But then, they dont really care about our Constitutional rights: they want to overthrow our current system of government and replace it with a theocracy. And this is just another step on their way to that goal. Anyone other than White male Teavangelicals is at risk.
Vote the Republicans out. All of them. And that soon.
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Only if every time one of them opened their mouth, someone shoved a piece of cake in it . . .
Journeyman
Apr 2015
#2
soon they'll be saying the 13th amendment violates their freedom and religious rights....
unblock
Apr 2015
#5
NPR's finest hour since broadcasting that "hundreds" of Iraq war protesters marched in DC
hatrack
Apr 2015
#8
Scalia said that "Money is speech." Is it such a stretch to see his fans saying BLANK is speech
closeupready
Apr 2015
#9
And, to take that to its logical conclusion, how long before liberal speech will NOT be speech?
closeupready
Apr 2015
#25
It is true! Cakes speak to me all the time. "Come on, a little piece won't hurt you, you can skip
yellowcanine
Apr 2015
#27
The only time flowers are speech in my world, are when I grab a rose the wrong way.
riqster
Apr 2015
#35
AHA! baptist precher on NPR said cake=speech. it must be coming from rush or fuxx gnewz......
pansypoo53219
Apr 2015
#32