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Technically, she’s praying always, so that’s her prayin’ outfit.

+1 for science, +1000 for “caterpillar pee”

I believe you. Hair only really smells bad if you have skin problems on the scalp (or smelly stuff IN your hair), which can be caused/exacerbated by a variety of things.

Inter-dessert sex? Feast-eliaty! Abomination!

LOL what the hell does a straight wedding cake fuck? Birthday cakes?

You’re right, federal level it doesn’t look like it but it is in Colorado where this happened.

Absolutely! If you’re OK with a vulva cake for het couples but not for gay couples you’re right back in the discrimination zone. But if you won’t do a vulva cake for anybody, well then that’s just your preference and you’re within your right to decline, even if the couple is gay. Unfortunately, bigots have learned to…

Exactly. Phillips is not balking at the style of cake, but rather who it’s for, i.e. he is discriminating against them on the basis of sexuality.

And “gay” is not a theme. It is a immutable state of being, not a way of thinking or a preference, which is why it is a protected class.

I don’t know if I’m misunderstanding your reply, but to clarify I meant if the ruling is in favor of religion being a valid reason to refuse service to a protected class, you could fuck the Republicans and their protections by refusing to serve Evangelicals because your religion prohibits it (as opposed to based on…

Religion is protected though. Put a sign that says “No Evangelicals” in the window.

And as far as I understand it, the gay couple is just asking for a regular old wedding cake, not a cake that says “GAY IS RIGHT” or “FUCK AMERICA” or “SATAN IS GREAT” or whateverthefuck offends him that people are apparently asking him to put on cakes left and right.

I feel sick.

And surely cake bakers still have control over how the product itself looks. E.g. if a lesbian couple came in wanting vulvas all over a cake and that offended the baker, the baker wouldn’t be compelled to make a vulva cake just because the couple is part of a protected class.

You are harping on the minutiae of the semantics of profit and money and trade, and as a result are conflating two very different things that have very different contexts with very different outcomes. When I tried to explain how Dr. Lee’s exchange for content is different than medical researchers’ exchange for content…

As far as opening the conversation, I’d suggest you stay generic if you want to appeal to the most number of women. Stick to neutral shared ground like the weather or the bar you’re in or her beer or that funny thing the bartender said to her at least until you find out more about her and can get on a topic, or see…

Prostitution, drugs, etc. will always always be there and they won’t go away or even necessarily be all that mitigated just because there is an option to sell your healthcare data or organs etc. So I don’t think people suffering because they’re trying to make money doing Y is a good reason for implementing an…

I think you are over simplifying what’s happening in healthcare. In fact the amount paid to doctors directly is far less than the amount paid to 1) facilities for services, inpatient in particular, and 2) drug companies. For example, if you look at cancer treatment, the vast majority of the cost is in chemotherapy,…

Sorry, that bottle of Yellowtail chard you bought in 2011 isn’t getting better.