Skull Pilot
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Yeah, it does. It is a violation of my conscience. The gay couple should have enough decency to respect my beliefs in the same way they would want me to respect theirs. They only wish this to be one sided. Utter submission, no questions asked. Serve us or be sued out of business.
They are my friends because I am tolerant of their beliefs, they know full well I will never condone them. For it, they respect that, and we carry on a friendship regardless of what the PC crowd thinks. And no, I am working to disprove the notion that Christians are bigots. I am far from being a champion of homosexuality. Regardless of my views on homosexuality, I will never in my lifetime mistreat one.
Yeah, I thought that'd ring a bell. I know you are desperately trying to turn my argument on its head, but you can't. I doubt you can fathom how a Christian can get along with a homosexual. I bet you are raking that head of yours "THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE!" It's simple, you ignore their infirmities. If it were so easy for a fiery soul like mine to forgive, then why couldn't one lone gay couple do the same?
I don't see how baking a cake can be against your beliefs if you are a baker.
After all that's all this guy had to do was bake a cake and get paid.
He didn't have to agree with the customer's life style all he had to do was treat the person as he would have treated anyone else.
But I guess that's too much to ask.
It was not an issue of baking a cake. It was an issue of where the cake would be assembled.
In an empty reception hall?
Had the cake been assembled at the bakery and the customer picked it up there, there would have been no problem and I am 100% certain the baker would have cheerfully baked the cake.
I'm not.
But to assemble the cake at the reception place and thereby become part of the function itself was not within the scope of the baker's conscience. Any more than he would have been comfortable assembling a cake at that KKK convention or at a function at the Westboro Baptist Church or anything else that he could not support in good conscience.
Setting up a cake hours before a function is not being part of the function. It's no different than if his business was a cleaning business and he was hired to clean the reception hall before the gay people showed up.
He has the right to live his life and be master of his own convictions every bit as much as that gay couple does.
And he has to live with the consequences of those convictions. Something you don't seem to want to acknowledge.
Those who think it is okay to destroy somebody financially purely because they hold a point of view you don't agree with is unAmerican, evil, and should never be condoned by anybody.
Actually exercising one's rights in the free market is very American.