“The “rights” of everyone but the baker...”
Why not? They are just using the same philosophy behind the smoking bans at privately owned businesses. Many a FReeper celebrated those bans, now the tools they established are honed for use in many other ereas of non conforming private businesses.
Homosexuals are not a 'race' of people, they are people who like to have sex with others of the same sex. It is a sexual preference that is revolting to some, even morally wrong.
Therefore, if a group that engages in same sex stuff and wants to celebrate their lust preference orders cupcakes from a business owner who finds their activities offensive, HE HAS EVERY RIGHT to refuse to support their cause.
Word of refusal will probably hurt his business, but he is standing on principle. Hope we are still allowed to do that in our country.
What homosexuals will never get is that even if they can manage to turn of the instinctive yuck factor so many have in reaction to their sexual proclivities, social acceptance will NEVER help them alliviate their own deep, deep self loathing. They know it, and we know it. That is why they die early. Not society, but the fact that they know it is a genuinely perverted behavior.