Agreed. But I would have sold the cake to them.
If selling to them is a sin, so is sitting here typing instead of risking our lives to block abortion clinic doors.
I delivered pizza to lots of mafioso wen I was younger.
Maybe they were celebrating a hit :) I still had to deliver.
We won’t give up microsoft windows here, many of us, yet he is in complete agreement with birth control/abortion.
Need to pick and choose fights.
I know there’s a double standard with muslim bakeries, but you have to live in what’s the reality of the situation, not what you’d like it to be.
A business that provides goods and services is in effect providing sponsorship. Is it okay if the happy couple tells all their gay friends to frequent your business, and it becomes the “go to” bakery for gay weddings? Or if they place a placard stating “this wedding cake provided by Melissa’s cakes”?
When they order you to sponsor their gay pride march with a banner and monetary donation, and then, to actually march in it, should you do that, too?
I agree with you, we should be more actively resisting abortion, etc., rather than just sitting here typing against it. But a lesser form of resistance is still resistance. I can’t agree that it’s the same as condoning or participating in the activity itself, but I really think sponsorship is.
And I also agree that when mafiosis order pizza, they’re just eating a meal, as any human being must; you’ve no way of knowing whether they’re celebrating a particular event / crime/ sin.
BUT if you KNOW a sin is specifically being celebrated, then yes, conscience may—and should—take precedence in a refusal to condone/ sponsor/ participate in the specific activity.
There was another less publicized case where a bar owner was bankrupted by the Gaystapo. Some drag queens began frequenting his country-western/ biker bar, and at first he just served them like any customers.
Their numbers increased and soon they were scaring off his regular clientele and demanding to hold drag shows. He made the mistake of telling them to take it elsewhere, his wasn’t a gay bar, it was country-western. Lawsuit ensued, he’s out of business.
IIRC this happened in Oregon as well; perhaps I’m mistaken.
So, yeah, you’re correct in your basic point: where does one draw the line?
That’s always a hard question.
My 2c worth. Be well, FRiend.