Liberal here. I'm also an attorney that deals with this kind of issue all the time. So let me take a stab at answering this incredibly vapid question.
Any Christian Baker that wants to stop selling, say, all three-tiered cakes to all customers, or wants to stop using vanilla frosting on all cakes, is perfectly able to do so. The can even do so for religious reasons. That's never been an issue.
What Wal-Mart, Dicks, and Christian bakers cannot do is refuse to sell products, be they wedding cakes or guns, to certain people because of who those people are. So Dicks can't refuse to sell a gun that it does carry to a Jewish or black customer.
This is why the kosher butcher analogy to the Christian Baker always fails, the government is not forcing sellers to carry products, only telling them that they can't discriminate when it's time to sell the products they do carry.
In the meantime @Education4Libs, maybe choose a different name? Because if you're asking questions that are this stupid, you're the one who's going to get schooled.
Some of you have asked some good questions on this thread, specifically, about the age discrimination lawsuits. First, note that that is not the question asked at the beginning of the thread.
Walmart and Dicks have stopped selling assault style weapons and even toy imitations.
Walmart and Dicks have stopped selling assault style weapons and even toy imitations.
But many stores are refusing to sell any guns to anyone under 21. That could be a legal problem for the stores--and lawsuits have been filed--if a few things are true.
First, the jurisdiction needs to have a civil rights or public accommodations law that protects against age discrimination. Not all do.
Second, the age protection would need to extend to places of public accommodation, not all do. Some jurisdictions might protect against age discrimination in hiring or housing, but not elsewhere.
Third, there cannot be an exception for gun buying in the public accommodation law, as there are for tobacco and alcohol.
Those are the big hurdles, but lawsuits against stores in jurisdictions that meet these requirements are likely winners. But two more important things to keep in mind:
1. Look for the law of unintended consequences. Jurisdictions that have extensive civil rights protections tend to be more liberal. Meaning less likely to cower before the gun lobby. Meaning more likely to exempt gun sales from those protections. These lawsuits could backfire.
2. It's worth repeating that the questions raised by you fine folks were better and more thoughtful than the vacuity that started this thread.
Finally, (I think) if you want to read up on all the arguments in the gay wedding cake case, check out the @Medium article I wrote:
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