Re: Christian bakers refuse gay wedding cake - face legal action
^Reread the above sentence. You’re posing the hypothetical situation of the baker refusing the customer on grounds of being a particular religion or orientation. How do you know that the baker in this article would ‘refuse’ ALL gay customers? Was the gay customer thrown out of the bakery? Was the gay customer barred from entering the bakery and placing an order?
The gay customer enters the building. Maybe he is obviously gay based on his clothes and his mannerisms, etc. He talks to the baker about the size of the cake, the various options in flavors, he even makes a payment…and all the while let’s say the baker can tell that he’s gay…everything went well until the customer asked the baker to pipe “Support Gay Marriage” on the cake. So, does the baker have something against ALL gay customers…or is it specifically the message on the cake he has issues with? I believe it’s the message. I don’t recall anywhere in the article that the baker had said that it was against his religious beliefs to accept gay customers into his store. He said that it was against his religious beliefs to write a message showing support for a belief that went against his teachings. What you are doing is stretching the baker’s disapproval of the message to it being an overall discrimination of all gay customers. The baker’s beliefs will obviously limit the type of messages and cake decorations he can do…but it doesn’t necessarily equate to an overall barring of a particular group of customers.