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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Should a gay bakery be forced to make an anti-gay cake for a Christian celebration?  I personally don't think so.  Why are Christian's  first amendment rights being trampled on in favor of the gay individuals? Why is the latter more 'important' than the former?[/quote]
A cake -- yes. They're in the business of providing cakes, so they should provide cakes without regard to factors about a customer such as religion or sexual orientation or plans for the product.

An "anti-gay" cake (what is that? presumably one that has slurs written on it somehow?) -- certainly not, if the bakery does not typically make such things. Especially when doing so could cause the bakery problems due to whatever the customer wants being considered discrimination or hate speech.

Give every customer no more or less than you would make available to every other customer.[/quote]
Different poster.  I think PP answered you correctly.  A gay bakery (or any bakery) cannot simply refuse to sell cakes to Christians, because that would be a violation of the anti-discrimination laws that protect Christians.  Surely you support such anti-discrimination laws that protect Christians against religious discrimination, don't you?

If the bakery routinely puts any message on the cakes, without regard to content -- think sort of like Kinko's of bakeries -- then I suppose it could be forced to put a message its owners consider personally offensive on the cake, if the message is one of a protected class (race, religion, etc).  That dispute probably gets a little murkier, because it's about the store's policy and practice, and the specific message requested.  As a practical matter, I'd guess most businesses printing specific messages will reserve the right not to print certain offensive messages.  If the business singles out Christian messages as ones it chooses not to print, I suspect that might be viewed as violating the anti-discrimination laws, but I suspect that's a tough case to prove.  If instead it's some non-protected message the bakery finds offensive (e.g., refusing to print the words "fuck you"), that's probably not a violation of any laws.[/quote]

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