Do You Have to Bake a Cake for a Gay Couple?

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i don't think you should be able to compel some one like tat ao. And then one of these, another graareas, is that colorado cake baker who refused to bake the cake for the gay couple. You know, i found that abhorrent. I just think that's a terrible thing. But i wasn't crazy about the government comin the state government in this case, well, you can’t, you have to bake the Cake. It was treated legally as a case of free expression.

Hailed as the “first freedom,” free speech is the bedrock of democracy, and it is subject to erosion in times of upheaval. Today, in democracies and authoritarian states around the world, it is on the retreat.

In this episode, based on the book Free Speech, Michael Shermer and Jacob Mchangama discuss the riveting legal, political, and cultural history of the principle, how much we have gained from it, and how much we stand to lose without it. Mchangama reveals how the free exchange of ideas underlies all intellectual achievement and has enabled the advancement of both freedom and equality worldwide. Yet the desire to restrict speech, too, is a constant.