I'm not a lawyer, and I do not play one on TV. But I disagree with the above.
If the gay mafia so desired, they could show a pattern of denial at a business. All they would need is enough data points. I'd bet that the gays would win the subsequent lawsuit against the business. Lots of money would change hands.
Exactly. Homo activists would send a hetero customer in after the rejected homo, requesting the same service, film both transactions, and sue them out of existence.
So many people forget that the 1950’s and 60’s civil rights movement was not about private busineses being discriminatory, it was about STATE SANCTIONED discrimination!!!!!
You know the STATE the thing the left loves so damned much...
While there was blatant private discrimination going on, as soon as the State Discrimination went away the situation improved considerably.
Patterns are hard to establish though, especially with a business that needs run time. The wife and I got “rejected” at a few places when planning our wedding, turns out 3 months (which we figured was plenty) isn’t enough lead time for a lot of that stuff (especially dresses, they apparently want everybody to think they don’t even plant the cotton until you place your order). With these companies probably refusing at least one customer a day due to timing finding the ones you rejected for other reasons gets tough.
These businesses need to reverse their tactics. As owner of a Christian Bake shop, I’d simply make it store policy to decorate every item made with a cross. Story policy. Same for all patrons. Anyone can order a cake, but this is how they’re made. Call the homosexual provocateur’s bluff. They don’t want the cake, they want a confrontation so they can continue to chip away and destroy Christianity.
IANAL either, but those are my thoughts as well. The concept of "Disparate Impact" has legal legs nowadays (I really hate that because it's illogical: It's a deliberate conflating of correlation and causation), so I would not be surprised at all if it were used against somebody refusing service to homo couples. Even a baker in a small town is not immune, because if he refuses once and the couple suspects it's because of religious objection, they'll take it to their friends before they take it to court, and they'll develop that set of data points.