Letters: Challenging the baker — The right to free speech, or the right to discriminate?

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Letters: Challenging the baker — The right to free speech, or the right to discriminate?
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“We have freedom of thought and expression in this country. But you aren’t free to discriminate against protected classes of people in the public marketplace.” — Marcus Pohlmann, …

Krista Kafer’s Sunday editorial defending “Jack Phillip’s cakes” does make sense on the most superficial level. Should a hired singer have to sing a racist song for a Ku Klux Klan rally? Or should a baker have to put a swastika on the wedding cake of an avowed Nazi?

“ can only answer questions about biological sex affirming that there are two sexes, male and female, which are determined at the beginning of life.” Thank you for Karen Denison Clark’s opinion column in Sunday’s Perspective Section. I wish it had been a headline news article on the paper’s front page where it really belongs. I’d like to know what the regents at DU and CU have been smoking or is it some of the mushrooms they’ve been imbibing in?

In Colorado’s Front Range, it has enthusiastically aided the bookselling efforts of many local authors. With the support of B&N and its Bookfairs, 50 Colorado-connected authors have been inducted into the Colorado Authors Hall of Fame. When Joyce Meskis, former owner of the Tattered Cover, was honored at the first induction in 2019 for her vision and contribution to and for authors, the event had a sold-out crowd. B&N was there.

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