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Nah,this seems like the baker chose his battle pretty well to me.
On one hand, contra to your worry that something is being made up here, Christian belief on gender is explicit and well established. One need not agree with the gentleman's view, but he isn't making something up to avoid civil law. Also, civil law is not well established here.
On the other, the baker also was not refusing all services to anyone, he simply refused to make custom cakes for things which cut against his beliefs. There are plenty of examples of people refusing this exact service with no problems, including people refusing to bake pro-Trump cakes, and the Colorado Commission also seems to have allowed a different baker to refuse to bake a cake with bible verses against homosexuality on it.
Finally, the Supreme Court, in a 7-2 ruling, found that the Colorado Commission was being hostile to the man on the basis of his religion. This wasn't a narrow, partisan ruling.
He is refusing based on gender and sexual orientation. Put another way; a couple walk in, one white one black. They want a black and white cake or something like that, sort of symbolizing their union, baker will make them a "normal" cake but refuses black and white based on his personal beliefs (that is what religious beliefs are) that people of different skin colors shouldn't marry - clear cut racial discrimination. The reasoning remains the same either way.
That may very well be how it's interpreted but that's not how I personally see the issue. I see it no different than the 1st issue regardless of the degree of required customization. I still hold that they would have been perfectly fine and likely gotten their cake if they hadn't stated what it was for or represented. Now, if he refused to sell them an already produced generic cake that was to be used for such a purpose then I would completely side with them. However, this in fact a custom order and given the colors chosen, not one he would likely normally make as I doubt there is much general call for such unless you stated it was to celebrate the birth of twins one male one female. That's not the case here and once again touches on his religious beliefs as he holds them. If nothing else, at least he's being consistent on his stance in that regard.
You see nothing wrong with creating the cake. You wouldn't though because you see nothing wrong with either gay marriage or trans issues. He apparently does based upon his religious beliefs. I would expect refusal as well if I went to an Islamic baker and asked for a bacon and chocolate cake. Well, I would expect it if they held their own religious beliefs as strongly as he apparently holds his own.
Shitty example, here is why - the Islamic baker wouldn't even carry the ingredients for those cakes. That would be like saying a vegan restaurant is discriminating for not making a steak, or a fish restaurant is discriminating for not carrying beef. Etc. Edit: Even if you're referring to making a cake that looks like chocolate or bacon, it's still not the same; human orientations do not include bacon and chocolate.
^^^THIS^^^
I’ve never understood any American that opposes this. Pro-freedom on everything else UNTIL you open a business then you no longer have freedom. If you want to keep your freedoms then don’t open a business, they say. How about the freedom to do business with whoever you want and the freedom to not do business with whoever you don’t want?
If I am selling my car I have the freedom to choose who I sell it to for any reason, or to not sell it to for any reason. Why is this freedom stripped from a person the moment they call it a business? How is the freedom of association not a fundamental right?
Ugly isn’t given any special privileges. These cake makers should just say, I’m not going to sell you a double dicked gay transformer cake because you are too fukkin ugly. No protection for ugly, or stinky breath, or being annoying. You can kick them out of your business all day long with no repercussions other than lost sales.
There is nothing more un-American than slaved labor and the stripping of freedom.
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You are openly advocating for the ability to discriminate based on race, ethnicity, gender/sex, sexual orientation, etc. There was a little thing called The Civil Rights Act that addressed this decades ago.
By the way, slave labor and stripping of freedom were quintessentially American for hundreds of years.
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