That would still be construed as discriminatory, for the "crime" is not creating the work of art requested, which normally would be done. Which is akin to a black or Jewish business refusing to create a special cake (which Muslim bakeries apparently also refused to do ) , or make a sign for a KKK event. Except in this case the KKK is politically favored.
What’s next? I won’t be able to take a six pack to a certain check out line because it is alcohol is against domeone’s religion. This couplre is trying to impose their religious beliefs on others and now they have cost themselves $135,000. Stupid.
That is simply not analogous, as this was not a case of not serving someone at all, for as Klein said , she was happy to serve the couple in the past and would have been happy to do so again, but added that she simply did not want to be compelled to participate in their wedding, which she said “goes against” her beliefs.
For the sodomite couple was not simply asking to but a cake, or even a standard wedding cake, but for the bakery to make a unique work of art, which specifically celebrated a homosexual union.
My cakes were my canvas,” she said. “My bakery wasn’t just called ‘Sweet Cakes Bakery,’ it was ‘Sweet Cakes by Melissa’ because I pour my passion and heart into each cake I make. My faith is a part of that.”
While liberal rock groups even claim the right to decide who uses their songs, and i am sure such would support the refusal of a Muslim bakery to create a special cake for a celebration of the founding of the modern state of Israel, the Kleins were driven out of business and fine an exorbitant penalty for essentially refusing to salute the flag of Sodom. Which requirement is likely coming to a work place near you.
The problem of course is that SCOTUS basically mandated all 50 states to do the same, and thus they can punish those who did not.
Woe to such a nation.
It cost them $130,000. I would have made the cake for them.