Scott Shackford: Nobody, Gay or Straight, Has the Right to a Wedding Cake

The national public argument over Arizona
Senate Bill 1062 revolved around who had the right to discriminate
in the marketplace and what reasons (religion, in this case) they
could use to justify such behavior. The bill was
vetoed amid vocal outrage about the state putting its stamp of
approval on discrimination. But a recent poll shows that a vast
majority of Americans support the right of a photographer, for
example, to decline to shoot a gay wedding. Scott Shackford argues
that rather than looking at who can discriminate and for what
reasons, we really should look at what goods and services are
covered by public accommodation laws in the first place and whether
the protections are even needed.

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