Former Obama speechwriter and “1600 Penn” co-creator Jon Lovett took a distinctly libertarian view of a recent case where a judge ruled against a bakery owner who turned away a gay couple who requested a rainbow-layered wedding cake.
Somebody is a jerk and won't sell you a cake. You file a complaint with the attorney general?
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/RBStalin/status/409163315231727616
Refused to make a kind of cake. Not to serve a kind of customer. RT @RBStalin: How is this is different from refusing to serve black people
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
@jonlovett What if they wouldn't sell blacks or Jews or Muslims cakes?
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013
.@pourmecoffee Difference between refusing Jewish customers and refusing to to draw a menorah on a cake, right?
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
@jonlovett "We don't do the Star of David here. Go to one of your own kind." You're okay with this?
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013
.@pourmecoffee Of course not! But it's a pretty high threshold to demand a baker participate in a wedding if he doesn't want to do it.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
@jonlovett I think it's pretty clear this was overt discrimination based solely on sexual preference and I'm glad they are seeking a remedy.
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013
@pourmecoffee I see you're point, and maybe you're right, maybe he wouldn't sell them anything, but that's not what happened here.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/mikeweiner_1967/status/409169746522025984
@mikeweiner_1967 there's a difference between refusing gay people and refusing to cater a gay wedding
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
We can achieve marriage equality without creating a cake mandate.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
Well said.
Oh you guys LOVE when I make fun of John Boehner but one heterodox (homodox?) opinion and you rip me apart!
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
@jonlovett welcome to the internet, bruh
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 7, 2013
I'm very supportive of gay people, up to and including sleeping with them exclusively.
— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013
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