How about if a gay couple comes in and orders off the menu?
Can you refuse to serve them due to religious objections?
No - unless they are being "inappropriately" intimate. Then they must leave.
I’m sorry, but you didn’t explain how you “knew” the couple in your example was gay.
Did they dress and act like everyone else at the restaurant?
Really? If so, why would anyone object to them?
Or was the couple so - er - “flamboyant” that they offended other customers — and were easily identified?
Hopefully, you DO see the difference between these two cases.
IMHO, we should not buy into the theory that rejecting particular ACTIONS is the same, exact thing as rejecting the ACTORS themselves, which is alleged to be illegal.
As evidence of this, consider the statement that the florist sold flowers to one of the men for years — just not for a “same-sex” marriage.
And I think we should push back when we see a active persecution of specific individuals — in this case, the florist.
IMHO, the mean-spirited (bitchy?) persecution of that poor woman shown here is much more serious than the discrimination imagined (or wished for?) by the “happy couple”...
Re: “How about if a gay couple comes in and orders off the menu?
Can you refuse to serve them due to religious objections?”
I guess I don’t understand your question. What does a gay person ordering “off menu” have to do with religious objections? Unless they want me to make a “penis” cake or cater for a same-sex wedding, I don’t see any grounds for refusing service.
If they're simply ordering as other diners, I would have no reason to refuse them service.