Andrew Sullivan comes out where I do on the gay wedding cake

although there's a lot of bullshit before and after, he gets to the nub, for me, in the 5th & 6th paragraphs:

And there’s a way out of this that need not take such a strong stand in terms of religious freedom. It seems to me the baker deserves to be able to pick and choose what kind of work he wants to do as an artist. A commenter on Rod Dreher’s blog proffers a series of important questions in this respect:

“If the cake shop loses, does that mean that if I’m, say, a freelance designer or an artist or a writer or a photographer, I can no longer pick and choose my clients? If the Westboro Baptist Church comes to me, I can’t reject them on the grounds that they’re deeply un-Christian scumbags? If I’m Jewish, do I have to design a Hitler’s Birthday cake with swastikas on it? Would a Muslim cake-shop owner be forced to design a cake that shows an Islamic terrorist with crosshairs over his face, a common target design in most gun shops in America? Can a gay, atheist web designer choose not to do work for the Catholic Church, or would we have the government compel him to take on a client he loathes?”

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Andrew Sullivan comes out where I do on the gay wedding cake -- southdenverhoo 12/08/2017 6:16PM

Would he be willing to make a cake for a Deut 22: 28-29 wedding? -- CavMan1 12/09/2017 10:40AM

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Isn't that what religion is? -- hoothat 12/09/2017 2:24PM

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