[Stosh]

The author here provides a principled argument - that’s good.

There’s also a practical approach one could use if a person wants to avoid all the hassle: offer only one, standard, one-size-fits-all wedding cake. Perhaps it might even include in icing a verse from scripture addressing marriage - it shouldn’t be hard to find one. And include on the bakery shop wall a sign that says “No custom cakes”.

If somebody wants the wedding cake without the Bible verse (no matter what their demographics) you point to the sign.

[silverleaf]

Yes, bakers should make GENESIS or "Bible" or "Torah" or "Koran" cakes instead of "wedding cakes". Choice of verses about marriage: No substitution or customization.

examples:
Genesis1/ 27: So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them. 28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

Genesis 2/22: Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. 23 The man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and mother and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh."
etc etc etc

[NCLaw441]

You posted:There’s also a practical approach one could use if a person wants to avoid all the hassle: offer only one, standard, one-size-fits-all wedding cake. Perhaps it might even include in icing a verse from scripture addressing marriage - it shouldn’t be hard to find one. And include on the bakery shop wall a sign that says “No custom cakes”.
If somebody wants the wedding cake without the Bible verse (no matter what their demographics) you point to the sign.
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That is one solution, but it impinges on business. Most people don’t want a wedding cake like everyone else, they WANT a custom cake. Why should the bakery have to lose business? Now, for my own taste (no pun intended), as long as the cake did not display any homosexual message or included two brides or two grooms, I’d make the cake for a homosexual couple. I don’t endorse homosexual activity and I don’t believe in “gay” marriage either.

[RoadGumby]

Offer ONLY cakes for Ceremonies of Holy Matrimony. Specifically say that this bakery does NOT provide ANY products for Marriages of any kind.

[dmz]

Sounds like a good plan for putting one’s self out of business. That sure would avoid all the hassles.

Folks don’t want a one size fits all wedding cake. That’s why you have custom bakers in the first place.