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To: Nifster
Business is business. Baking a cake in exchange for money is what a baker does. It hardly violates their beliefs to do so with two male figures on top of the cake. Does this bake routinely ask if the couple getting married has had sex before marriage? Or if they are devout Christians? or if they are unequally yoked? Or if they have been living in sin before the nuptials? Selective theology is a bad thing.

Good point. I remember here in Houston when the coach of The Rice University football team ruffled some feathers by saying he didn't want homosexuals on the football team. He gave as his reason that 'homosexuality is a sin'. However, I wondered at the time if he had a problem with the likely sin of his straight players having premarital sex with young co-eds.

29 posted on 02/26/2014 7:33:55 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: Sans-Culotte

That and the underaged drinking and probably some drug use and let’s not forget the cheating on exams so they can make the grade point requirement. Hypocrisy comes in many forms


31 posted on 02/26/2014 7:39:51 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Sans-Culotte
You're still avoiding the problem of people be forced to bake a cake for something that violates their core beliefs. If I ran a bakery, I wouldn't care who wanted me to bake a cake...because I would never ask them if they were a homosexual, or a Nazi, or a Klan member.

But if somebody wanted me to bake them a cake for a ceremony or occasion that violated my conscience, I should not have to bake that cake. I'm not religious, but there are certain things I wouldn't do. If I ran a construction business, and some Nazis wanted me to build them a Nazi clubhouse or some other type of building, I think I should be able to say no to them without the law forcing me to do so.

43 posted on 02/26/2014 7:57:56 PM PST by driftless2
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To: Sans-Culotte

Good point and we need to not be selective on that standard. God isn’t.


57 posted on 02/26/2014 8:22:30 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Each to his own sin. I don’t favor one/others being intrusive in others lives as long as the others leave such alone to their own lives. I also believe that a government of humans has no place in taking ones freedom of God given historic rights and giving to another for some societal band aid.


141 posted on 02/27/2014 2:00:52 PM PST by noinfringers2 ( /*)
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