COMMENTARY: Ruling on the Anti-Gay Cake
Well, technically the Bakery did discriminate by refusing to make the Anti-Gay Cake with an image showing how 2 men together is a sin.
There's good discrimination and bad discrimination.
Here's the best way to argue the case of why it's okay for a gay couple to order a cake about their wedding while not okay for a guy to ask a cake with an Anti-Gay message.
Use food as an example.
A gay couple asking for a cake for their wedding, which may be seen as different by traditional faith, is like asking to the ice cream person to pour Ketchup on your Strawberry Ice Cream.
If you want Ketchup on your Ice Cream, that's your thing. It doesn't whet my appetite, but it's not about me.
When a guy says he wants an Anti-Gay Cake saying gay relationships are a sin, it's like saying nobody is allowed to put Ketchup on their Ice Cream.
I may not want Ketchup on my Ice Cream, but I don't want the government telling me I can't do it. As long as it doesn't go against your Constitutional Rights of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness, you have a lot of leeway.
Only time seeing someone eat Ice Cream with Ketchup on it would be offensive is if the person sits down in front of me and eats it 3 inches in front of my face chewing with his mouth open. It's where the person is actually going out of their way to do it.
Just like with this post, if I want to publicly address my thoughts on my religious beliefs that are contrary to others, it's eating Ice Cream with Ketchup on it.
Now, if I go to your Facebook page and posting how you should put Ketchup on your Ice Cream and tag you in photos of me eating Ketchup-Coated Ice Cream, that's when I'm invading your personal space and trying to shove my Ketchup-Coated Ice Cream down your throat.
From what I understand, the gay couple asking for a cake got it for their wedding. That's their thing. They weren't trying to make a big deal out of it. The wedding cake symbolizes an act of love between "two persons" who care about each other.
This Anti-Gay cake doesn't appear to have anything to do with Love. it's more about Hate and how someone doesn't like what other people are doing and wants to make a public statement.
It sounds like the a point was trying to be made about a supposed double standard about refusal of what cakes can be made.
It really is discrimination, but it's more like discriminating between drinking milk that's healthy and discriminating against soda that is high in sugar, bad for your teeth, and can give you diabetes.
You have a right to hate putting Ketchup on your Ice Cream. If you don't want Ketchup on your Ice Cream, that's your deal.
However, when you make it a Law that businesses can refuse putting Ketchup on your Ice Cream because it's "weird" or different, that's when you run into problems.
I once said that when I go to Subway Restaurant I don't like olives and pickles on my Tuna Fish Sandwich. That's how I like my sandwich.
People telling others what Religion to practice and what their Religion says is or isn't appropriate is like the person behind me in a Subway Restaurant line telling me to make my sandwich the way they like it and make me eat it.
The only time not ordering olives and pickles on a Subway Sandwich becomes against the law is if you can prove that it causes physical injury and death to others. If not ordering olives and pickles on your Tuna Fish Sandwich causes the person behind you to spontaneously combust in a tower of flames, then you have the right to tell me I can't order that kind of sandwich.
https://www.yahoo.com/politics/azucar-bakery-did-not-discriminate-by-refusing-to-115703680320.html