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Would Jesus bake cakes for gay weddings?
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Posted on 03/04/2014 9:08:24 AM PST by Morgana

March 3, 2014 (Breakpoint.org) - The call for tolerating same-sex marriage has become a demand for compliance. Cases like Masterpiece Cake Shop in Colorado and Elane Huguenin’s New Mexico photography business have shown us that “tolerance” ends exactly where the right to say “no” begins. And so people, businesses, and non-profits are forced to choose between their livelihoods and their convictions.

Some fellow Christians are giving this new state of affairs a thumbs-up, including Kirsten Powers, whose fearless stand against abortion I admire, and Skye Jethani, a friend I respect greatly.

They argue that Christians who won’t participate in gay “weddings” are “applying Scripture selectively.” If you object to baking a cake, shooting photographs or playing music for a ceremony for two men or two women, they say, you should also object to serving anyone with an unbiblical lifestyle. But since no business owner can do a background check on every client’s personal life, Powers and Jethani conclude that any religious objections to doing business are illegitimate.

Plus, they say, baking a cake or providing floral arrangements doesn’t mean that a Christian is participating in or affirming gay “marriage.” They’re only conducting business.

Now before I reply, it’s important to understand how confused this whole conversation has become, especially with all the noise surrounding the anti-discrimination bills in Kansas and Arizona.

Click "like" if you support TRADITIONAL marriage.

The Kansas bill was very problematic, and unfortunately created enough negative sentiment to defeat the Arizona bill, which did not give anyone the right to refuse to serve gays, members of other faiths or political parties, or even Yankees fans for that matter.

And neither the baker in Denver, nor the photographer in New Mexico, nor the florist in Washington refused to serve customers because they were gay. They refused participation in a same-sex wedding.

Every good baker and photographer I know who take their work seriously see themselves as participating in the ceremonies they service, especially weddings. Their cakes adorn the celebration and their pictures document the story. And that’s why they object to being forced to participate in same-sex weddings. It’s not something they can do in good conscience.

A baker friend of mine told me he turns down cake business all the time because of convictions that have nothing to do with same-sex weddings, like if they’re sexually explicit or crude. He wouldn’t bake a wedding cake if he knew the couple to be abusive. His faith has shaped his business for over 15 years, so why should he be forced to disconnect his faith from his business now?

Again, if he refused to serve a gay person a cupcake, he’s sinning. However, that’s not the same as baking a rainbow cake to celebrate gay marriage. It just isn’t.

Powers and Jethani are right that Jesus would serve, wash the feet of, and have dinner with a gay person. But that’s different than saying that Jesus, the carpenter, would carve an altar for a same-sex wedding with a rainbow on it in place of a cross. He spent time with tax collectors, but He didn’t help them steal more.

Theologian Russell Moore makes a strong case for avoiding any involvement with same-sex “weddings.” But I’m with Eric Teetsel, there’s much more to consider about what constitutes involvement and what doesn’t. And there’s also another question.

Even if we assume that Jesus would participate in a gay “wedding,” does that mean we should force everyone to do it? Stamping out the freedom of those whose consciences differ is still unthinkable. I’d never want a judge to order a bakery owned by someone who identifies as gay or lesbian to be forced to bake a “God hates gays” cake for Westboro Baptist Church. I would defend that baker’s right to say no every single time.

We can’t shrug off conscientious objections as if religious liberty doesn’t matter. As Os Guinness argues in his book “The Global Public Square,” religious freedom is essential, not only for Christians or for religious people, but in this deeply polarized society, it’s essential for maintaining peace, prosperity, maybe even civilization itself.


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"Would Jesus bake cakes for gay weddings?"

No he would not have! Jesus was a CARPENTER not a BAKER! Carpenters don't bake cakes.

1 posted on 03/04/2014 9:08:24 AM PST by Morgana
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To: Morgana

Completely misses the point. If you aren’t free to choose what work you do you are not free.


2 posted on 03/04/2014 9:11:18 AM PST by DManA
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To: Morgana

Jesus would do better. He would forgive their sins and tell them to sin no more.


3 posted on 03/04/2014 9:11:38 AM PST by ex-snook (God is Love)
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To: Morgana

The article is drivel; playing with fake terms as if they are real.


4 posted on 03/04/2014 9:12:06 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: Morgana

I believe the question is “would Jesus change water into wine for a gay wedding”. /s


5 posted on 03/04/2014 9:13:24 AM PST by tioga
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To: Morgana

And Jesus wouldn’t have built a bed for a Sodomite couple either because the Jews would have stoned them.


6 posted on 03/04/2014 9:13:25 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Morgana

RE: No he would not have! Jesus was a CARPENTER not a BAKER! Carpenters don’t bake cakes.

Would Jesus make a podium for a gay marriage?


7 posted on 03/04/2014 9:14:08 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: ex-snook

Good answer.


8 posted on 03/04/2014 9:14:17 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Morgana

Not sure what Jesus would do. If it were me, I would bake a cake unfit for presentation though perfectly safe for human consumption of course.


9 posted on 03/04/2014 9:14:52 AM PST by RC one (Militarized law enforcement is just a nice way of saying martial law enforcement.)
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To: Morgana
Again, if he refused to serve a gay person a cupcake, he’s sinning.

No it isn't.

Matthew 10:14
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, leave that home or town and shake the dust off your feet.

He did not teach to accept a sinner while they continue in their sin. He taught repentance as well as love.

10 posted on 03/04/2014 9:15:10 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Morgana

“Would Jesus bake cakes for gay weddings?”...I doubt Jesus would have a need to bake cakes for gay weddings.


11 posted on 03/04/2014 9:15:37 AM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: ex-snook

RE: Jesus would do better. He would forgive their sins and tell them to sin no more.

And what if they refused to sin no more? What if they refuse to acknowledge that their actions are a sin?

I ask this because we already have GAY COUPLE affirming churches in New York City.

See here for one — The Marble Collegiate Church :

http://new.marblechurch.org/Programs/GIFTSLGBTFellowship/Proclamation/tabid/454/Default.aspx

https://www.facebook.com/pages/GIFTS-LGBT-Fellowship-at-Marble-Church/83410826922


12 posted on 03/04/2014 9:17:10 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Morgana

Would he make them a table, then? :)
Irrelevant.

Here’s the pattern of the Master - the repentant got Grace, the unrepentant got The Law (to show they need to repent).

Any homosexuals intending to get married are inherently unrepentant sinners, so, no, they would not get Grace.


13 posted on 03/04/2014 9:17:11 AM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Morgana

Jesus doesn’t bake cakes, he makes wine.


14 posted on 03/04/2014 9:18:01 AM PST by faucetman ( Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Morgana

Businesses should be allowed to serve who they want and when they want. Period. The business would suffer or benefit as a result. Same with wages.

I also believe that some businesses are using religious belief as a way to not serve gays out of necessity. Religious belief or not, if I’m concerned that I’ll lose business because I’m making a giant penis cake with two plastic dudes making out on it, I’ll say what I have to say.

The public school system has always been on us to give my daughters all these BS shots. We always site religious beliefs and it works.


15 posted on 03/04/2014 9:19:00 AM PST by albie
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To: demshateGod; Chode
“a Sodomite couple either because the Jews would have stoned them.”

Those religious leaders were always trying to “test” Jesus. One way was by presenting that woman who was guilty of adultery and should have been stoned. What if instead of a woman guilty of adultery they had presented two men guilty of sodomy to Jesus? That would have been the proper question to ask.

16 posted on 03/04/2014 9:20:35 AM PST by Morgana (Wagglebee please come home we miss you!)
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To: Morgana

I won’t.

Ever.

And gays can shove it up their Obamaholes.

Oh, forgot.......


17 posted on 03/04/2014 9:23:17 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Morgana

18 posted on 03/04/2014 9:23:44 AM PST by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: RC one

Jesus did not recommend anal sex. There is no such thing as sodomite “marriage” and I don’t give a damn now many laws are passed to say homosexuals, who can’t have sex to start with, are married. If marriage does not mean a one man, and woman, it means nothing. If you say homosexual can “marry”, then of course you have to a man can marry his dog, billy goat, sister, Ford truck, or anything else he wants to marry. He can also have 10 or 15 wives.


19 posted on 03/04/2014 9:25:19 AM PST by NKP_Vet ("I got a good Christin' raisin', an 8th grade education, ain't no need ya'll treatin' me this way")
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To: JoeProBono
Martha whipped that up in the Kitchen while Mary and the 12 disciples were listening to Jesus preach in the front room.
20 posted on 03/04/2014 9:26:09 AM PST by Morgana (Wagglebee please come home we miss you!)
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