lolgaxe wrote:
It all depends on whether they'd be willing to make a cake that says "We do support gay marriage." Since we don't have that information, I'm going with assuming they would, which is why I'm saying they should also make the opposite.
That's fair. I don't think it's an apt comparison though to a company that refuses to sell products based on the people versus the product itself. That's what the original case came down to: the store wouldn't sell a cake because it was a "G
ay wedding" cake, not because they demanded that it be decorated with butts
ex or rainbow linked male gender symbols. Presumably (based on the statements from the store about why they refused) it wouldn't matter if it had been a vanilla sheet cake, they still wouldn't have provided it for the wedding based purely on the people requesting it.
The "counter" was to demand a specific
cake. Even if you made cakes saying "We love G
ays" and refused to make cakes saying "We hate G
ays", that's not equivalent to refusing to sell those cakes to particular classes of people based on their identity. The only real equivalent would be refusing to sell a cake for a religious ceremony, some sort of racial meeting (black fraternity?), heteros
exual wedding or situation where the question wasn't the baked good itself but who is going to eat it.
Edited, Apr 7th 2015 10:21am by Jophiel