by Alan Smithee Mon Feb 04, 2013 3:29 pm
It is a fricking cake (yes, in the grand scheme of things it is just a fucking cake and that does help to detract from the larger issue. Discrimination.) At the same time, that goes BOTH ways. It's a frickin cake! Who cares if they don't serve you? (What if they were refusing to sell a cake to an interracial or inerfaith couple?) Private businesses have the right to refuse service, as far as I am concerned (Another reason why I'm grateful you're not in charge of anyone but yourself. Private businesses DO NOT have the right to universally refuse service). If you don't like it, go somewhere else. (And if every other business you have access to or is in your price range feels the same way I guess it's tough shit for you, huh?) After all, it's a fricking cake. You're going to cry discrimination and make a stupid fuss over what is nothing more than a fricking cake? It's a cake! (Again, yeah, it's just a fucking cake but what if it was a hotel that was refusing to give them a room? Is there a threshold passed which it stops being just "a fricking fill in the blank" and becomes something worthy of protest?) You don't have a right to private services. And if gay wedding cakes are not part of this bakery's services, go elsewhere and let them suffer the loss. (It's not a "gay" wedding cake. It's a wedding cake for a gay (lesbian) couple. If the bakery makes them for straight couples, they have to make them for everyone.) I mean if a bakery refused to cater my child's communion party or whatever, I would just go somewhere that did. It's a fricking cake. If a store doesn't give you what you want, go somewhere else and stop trying to exploit it to grab 15 minutes of fame. (And turn the baker into a martyr. haha) (St. Eclair?)
Furthermore, it's not the government's job to punish the beliefs of private business owners, even if they do think they are stupid. A business has a right to make stupid choices. It's not government's job to tell bakeries that "you have to bake cakes for gay weddings or else." It's not government's business what occasions a bakery chooses to sell it's services for. If a bakery wants to not make cakes for any occasion, that's their right to do so without government involvement of the slightest, stupid or not. (No, the government shouldn't...and DOESN'T tell bakeries they have to sell wedding cakes at all. But if they make the bussiness decision to sell any, the government does have the power to make them sell them to everybody.) Any public backlash from that business is something the business will have to accept.
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