Well, no, because making a wedding cake supporting a marriage is inherently different from making a cake supporting a hate group. One is about bringing people together, the other is about dividing them. Also, LGBTQ* people don’t choose their sexuality, it’s an inalienable part of who they are. Nazis choose to be Nazis. Some might be raised in it, so it’s all they know, but it’s something they can change about themselves. Someone who is bisexual is pretty much always going to be bisexual. It’s the same reason we don’t discriminate on the basis on skin color: it’s something the person can’t control about themselves and has no bearing on who they are except to the degree society has made it so. A religion discriminating on the basis of race or sexuality doesn’t mean it’s okay to do so. Christians also used to believe in child marriage, but guess what? Times have changed.
Additionally, just because it’s speech doesn’t mean it’s equal in what it’s doing nor does it mean that it should be treated the same. Ignoring that this case probably shouldn’t be used as precedent because the underlying facts are made up (also showing how disingenuous the argument is), there’s a difference between saying you can’t choose to deny business to someone because of who they are (LBGTQ*) versus saying you can choose not to do business with someone over their opinion (Nazi).
You don’t seem to understand. Free speech is fundamental. If you make it so hate groups can’t express themselves you open up precedent to making it so LGBT people can’t express themselves.
If you force people to platforming LGBT speech against their beliefs, it opens the legal argument that you need to give a platform to hate groups as well.
This is about precedent, not morals. That’s how free speech is codified in America. It is not like Europe where you can pick and choose what’s legal.
Free speech is not absolute, there are exceptions. And the government can’t really stop hate speech until it crosses a certain threshold. Also, the fictional gay couple in the case in question was literally denied a platform and your argument has no internal logic, so I’m really not sure what you’re trying to say. Saying you can’t discriminate against gay people is not the same as saying you should be forced to build websites for Nazis. To argue otherwise is disingenuous.
Free speech absolutist I see.
I mean, I honestly have never met a “free speech absolutist” that was any different than musk. “Free speech absolutist unless I don’t like you posting it and then I’ll flip sides because my original position was a convenient lie”
HOWEVER, it’s fairly well supported that a tolerant society MUST NOT tolerate intolerance. So we MUST not tolerate any view that a particular group of people shouldn’t exist (with the obvious exceptions of other intolerance)
The paradox of tolerance is on Wikipedia if you’d like a read.
