So long as they don’t make rainbow-colored confections for ANYBODY, I fully support their right not to do so as a special order.
Otherwise, there are limits to what a publicly-operated business can do, and denying a product to one customer that you offer to another customer based on that customer’s sexual preference is probably over the line.
In this case, I believe the articles have all said they don’t do rainbow-colored confections, so they should be OK.
1. This business claims to not do ANY special orders. They bake cookies, place them in a case, and people stop by and buy what is in the case. Those students were told that they could buy any cookie out of the case. Thus this is not discrimination.
2. This order came by phone, this student group from a local University were part of the "Social Justice" activism group at that same University. They were requesting cookies be made to help SPONSOR the coming out day event.
3. By participating in the SPONSORSHIP, the business owners would have been ENDORSING this activity. As Christians who have moral objections to this lifestyle in good conscience they could not do that.
Now I may be wrong on my understanding of what has happened with this business, but my sources are trustworthy. If I am wrong, please feel to correct me. But it seems to me this isn't about discrimination. This is about a gay agenda, in particular a gay activist group who specifically targeted a well known Christian business who has been at this specific location for 20 years. They then repackaged and resold the refusal to participate in SPONSORING a gay event as discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Welcome to the new gay attack agenda on Christian businesses. When the hate crimes law passed I predicted that Christian businesses would soon be targeted. Now my prediction is as this tactic appears to be successful - that churches will soon follow.
I’m disabled, and if a business does not want my patronage, that’s fine by me. I’ll go someplace that does appeciate my patronage.
I don’t see why it’s so hard to understand. I’m a tutor. I choose who I want to work with and if some gay person gets their nose out of joint, by making my life miserable, then that’s not likely to make me think more highly of you.
IOW, suck it up buttercup.