Tell you what, if it was me rather than lose my business in fines or go to jail I would agree to make cakes for anyone, but just refuse to decorate it with any markings that imply same sex marriage.
Just don’t offer those markings, only offer normal markings.
A cake is a cake.
To do otherwise is a losing battle that conservatives abandoned in the 1960s.
There is principle and then thereis cutting your nose off...
Just don’t offer those markings, only offer normal markings
...he would be prosecuted under the exact same standard as he is now...
...it’s his refusal to recognize same sex marriage that’s at issue here, completely aside from what kind of cake he bakes...
...I suppose he could bake standard wedding cakes with no decorations at all, straight or gay. but really, who does that in the bakery business...?
As I understand it, he offered to sell them a kind of cake that he does do. They want a kind of cake that he doesn’t do.
He hasn’t denied them service.
He’s denied them the power to change his menu.