Ok, the apalachian elephant in the room is Kim Davies, innit? She respawned as a funda_mental_ist christian 20 years after joining civil service. And maybe she should have quit her job when the circumstances changed in a way it was impossible for her to keep on doing her job and sticking to the oath she swore. That hillbilly mother wasn't jailed for her belief, but because she broke a law just for spite, selfishness and propaganda, completely ignorant to any attempt of getting this done way less spectacular.
Does this also apply to people who won't sell wedding cakes to a gay couple? I hope so because they do not have a civil job and the gay couple can buy the cake elsewhere.
I'm a Christian, I however think it's discriminatory to refuse service in a situation like this. They're just buying a cake, the people selling the cake isn't marrying the gay couple, they don't have to agree or be apart of the wedding. It's just selling a cake. Although if I were gay and looking for a cake and people felt this way and refused to serve me I would probably not want to give them business anyway.
It's still discrimination to refuse service to someone because of sexual preferences, race, sex, or religion. We have laws to protect people from this, and it's breaking the law.
I believe there is a difference between selling a cake and being a public officer. If someone doesn't want to sell a wedding cake to any specified group of people, that's up to them, I don't think this should be regulated by law. This being said: if people decide not to buy cakes from a shop run by a homophobe religious nut, then that's up to them as well. Maybe if you risk your life's work proving a point, you kind of had it coming.
Ok, I wasn't aware of that and I think it's wrong. Even if the claim they don't have anything against homosexuals, only gay weddings, is a bit random and sanctimonious, this shouldn't have happened.
If you are baking the cake, you are not marrying them, causing them to get married. In addition, I'm sure they bake cakes for adulterers' weddings all the time. Their religion isn't really the issue.
Saying that business owners has the right to refuse service based on this would open the door to some racist shop owner to refuse service to someone of color. Discrimination is discrimination.
They have refused a very specific kind of service, but not generally refused service to homosexuals. That's not sane and not right, but it should not be punishable. That's like they'd accept black persons as customers generally, but would refuse to bake a Kwaanza cake.
If it was going to be fair then they should refuse to do wedding cakes for anyone, not just same sex couples. If you're singling out one specific set of people it's discrimination.
So they should be forced to act against their religion?
Do you not understand how horrible that is to some people?
They were forced to choose between their business and their God. That isn't a choice that they should have to make in a country that's supposed to have religious freedom, but they did, and it cost them their life's work.
Why couldn't the couple just go to another baker? Why did they have to ruin the lives of people who's only crime is being faithful to their God?
If you choose to work with the public then you know you're going to have various customers of all different backgrounds, so you need to be prepared to treat them all equally.
Do you not understand how horrible that is to some people?
They were forced to choose between their business and their God. That isn't a choice that they should have to make in a country that's supposed to have religious freedom, but they did, and it cost them their life's work.
Why couldn't the couple just go to another baker? Why did they have to ruin the lives of people who's only crime is being faithful to their God?