Last time this happened it was in New Jersey when a guy who named his kid Hitler demanded that a ShopRite supermarket sell them a birthday cake with Adolf Hitler's name on it.
The state of New Jersey took the customer's kids away!
Apparently the State of New Jersey felt it sufficient in that case to focus on the welfare of the children, and to deny the purchaser the privilege of FORCING a bakery to prepare a sign or statement with which it disagreed.
What's happened here is the operator of the city market in Indianapolis has failed to catch up with child endangerment laws and instead focused squarely on the use of pudenda by the customers to force a business owner to endanger his own children.
Given that the laws here are supposed to pretty much be in line with standards and guidance worked out by the courts over the last two centuries, let me be among the first to suggest that the solution is to take the customer and the market manager and imprison them for child endangerment until this can be worked out.
The state of New Jersey took the customer's kids away!
Talk about your apples and oranges.
The parents of “Adolph” were both disabled, unemployed, victims of abuse and had some severe psychological problems of their own. (Child Protective Services was already in contact with the parents before the bakery incident.) The birthday cake was irrelevant to the court decision to place their children in foster care. (Wal-Mart made the cake for them.)
“Just Cookies”, as a private business, has the right to refuse to offer their services to any customer, just as the bakery had the right to refuse to bake a cake with “Adolph” on it.
Hmmm, the obvious answer is to find some flaming baker and have them make a white angel cake with KKK frosting.