Gay bakeries refuse to make cakes = discrimination

[Paraselene]

Despite anti-discrimination laws in many states that require Christian bakery owners to bake cakes for same-sex weddings, 13 LGBT and gay-owned bakeries objected to one man's request when he asked if they'd make a pro-traditional marriage cake that would read "gay marriage is wrong."

"Why would we make something that is against what we are working toward?" the Hot Cookie representative asked. "I feel like that is hateful and we are not about that."

Shoebat responded by telling her that although Christian bakers believe that gay marriage is morally wrong, they are still forced to make cakes for the same-sex weddings.

"All of the homosexual activists in California are working to force Christian businesses in California to acquiesce to homosexual opinion and things that they don't agree with," Shoebat asserted. "Technically, you are discriminating against people like me, when you refuse to make a cake that says 'gay marriage is wrong.' … By refusing to make a cake, it's discrimination against those beliefs."

"I am a man who believes gay marriage is wrong. Is there no equality for me?" Shoebat asks.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/13-gay...ng-131479/

[Elskidor]

Discriminating against discriminating! This is just getting silly. Shoebat website is pretty amusing though, if you got a stomach for lunacy.

[Violet]

There are non-gay bakeries still in operation?

Huh. I thought that they'd closed their doors years ago.

[Gawdzilla]

"I am a man who believes gay marriage is wrong. Is there no equality for me?" Shoebat asks.

Shoebat, dude, you're a troll.

[Mudhammam]

Shoebat may be a troll but I think his point about hypocrisy is valid. If you're in the business of baking custom designed cakes, and a customer requests something you personally do not agree with, who cares? Bake the cake and collect your fee.

[c172]

I kind of agree with shonuff, but I also can imagine some heterosexist schmuck coming in and making the gay bakers do an anti-gay cake just out of harassment towards the bakers themselves (in addition to the gay community). Like, it would drive their point home in a more severe way.

[Jackalope]

Looks like a clear case of wanting to have your cake and eat it too, IMO.

[Aoi Magi]

This is why one should keep business separate from his/her/its personal life and opinions.

[Alex K]

Can I add that I would hope that heterobakeries are equally pissed off by such a request? But since there are so many bakeries in the world the whole thing seems so obviously set up to send a message to that baker in particular, and I wonder whether that doesn't satisfy some criterion for bullying which would be officially recognized. Of course you can't prove that the order was given for that purpose, so probably not...

[rexbeccarox]

They didn't refuse to make the cake because they were discriminating against straight marriage; they refused because they were being bullied, as Alex pointed out. That's not discrimination.