Let Them Eat Cake: Wedding Discrimination, Sexual-Orientation Discrimination, and a Slippery SlopeJohn Corvino (Wayne State University)
September 22, 2017, 11:30am - 1:30pm
Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
32-D461
32 Vassar Street
Cambridge
United States
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In 2012 Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop refused to create a wedding cake for a same-sex couple, citing his religious beliefs. In 2016 LaGresha Fizer-Brown of Take the Cake Bakery canceled a birthday-cake order for a lesbian customer, after realizing that the cake was a gift for the customer’s same-sex partner.
Many who are sympathetic to Phillips’s wedding-cake refusal—including both supporters and opponents of same-sex marriage—would object to Fizer-Brown’s birthday-cake refusal. In this paper I argue that the distinction between the cases largely fails. As a matter of law and public policy, the cases should stand or fall together.
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