(06-11-2018, 10:01 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(06-11-2018, 07:36 PM)copycat Wrote: #1  Yes DJT is a lightning rod but that hardly excuses the shall we say callous speculation on his family.

#2  We did and if my memory is correct was he not chastised by both sides of the isle?

#3  Standing in the check out isle today the cover of I believe "In Touch" (for the record I am not familiar with this magazine) was speculating on the real reason Melania has been absent.  Of coarse these "rags" do go out of their way to sell their product so I take that with a grain of salt.

I just wish everyone regardless of political affiliation would leave the family's of our politicians alone.

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Point of contention here, didn't the Supreme Court just have ruling concerning a baker not wanting to bake a cake?  Maybe I missed the mark here but it kind of feels the same way.

That's closer to the mark than hate crimes. 
You can't be prosecuted for merely thinking that gay marriage is wrong, nor can you be prosecuted for refusing to make a wedding cake, but you now apparently you could be prosecuted for refusing to make a wedding cake if you say you're only refusing because you think gay marriage is wrong. 
I can see both sides of that one. On one hand, nobody likes to be told what they can and can't say and do in the workplace, and there were always lots of places willing to provide custom cakes to anybody.  On the other hand, this doesn't have to be about freedom, so much as it's saying, let's keep politics out of the retail marketplace.  Let's make sure businesses open to the by public serve everyone, that the commercial marketplace doesn't become a battleground where unpopular minorities are excluded.