So DU's Legal Minds - Re: Supreme Court's Title VII Ruling for LGBTQ

[TlalocW]

Are we now in a situation where a member of the LGBTQ community can get hired by a cake making business who can legally refuse on religious grounds to make a cake for that employee's wedding but then cannot fire that person based solely on their orientation?

TlalocW

[janterry]

1. The case was not brought based on a religious exemption

so, that was not decided in this case.

I'm not a lawyer, but this is was written into the majority opinion.

[Ms. Toad]

2. First question is - how many employees does the cake business have?

If there are fewer than 15, the Civil Rights Act does not cover the business - so they can continue to fire the person based solely on their orientation.

Beyond that, Masterpiece Cake was decided on very narrow grounds: Hostility of the Commission to the owner's religious beliefs (rather than neutral promotion of public policy). So the supreme court has not yet ruled, generally, on whether the cake making business can refuse to make a cake for an LGBT wedding.

[TlalocW]

3. Ah, did not know this

Thank you.

TlalocW