MWoO
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We cant assume the bakery wouldnt make a birthday cake or a cake for any other event for the couple. We only know what happened in this instance.Oh, let's face it: even if a gay person wanted a cake just for any other occasion, they probably would have refused service to him or her for the same reason: simply for being gay.
Like as shared a few pages back, that young Christian singer being chastised by much of her Christian following for being on Ellen DeGeneres's show simply because Ellen is gay.
I mean, if we could get a little playful, here's a couple of storybooth videos that kind of illustrate how this all works:
And @Censored, I know you'll appreciate this one:
There has to be a distinction between legality and morality. My morals tell me that i should provide service to anyone if i work in the service industry. But legally i want to right to determine what service i provide.
For example. I am trying to make money sculpting figures, but i want the right to choose what i will and won't sculpt. Someone may commission me to make something i dont want to make and i want the right to refuse. Its the same thing.
Freedom means the ability to do what you want as long as you do not infringe on the freedom of another. In the case of the cake, the couple has the freedom to choose another bakery. Protestors have the freedom to boycott the original bakery. The bakery will either go out of business or change its policies.
The problem with defending the bakery's rights in this case is that pro-LGBT people think you are against them and anti-LGBT people think you are with them qhen the reality is its a separate issue.
Morally we should just all be cool to each other, but legally we should have the freedom not to be cool.