IF they were going to bake the cake UNTIL they found out that it was for a homosexual couple then my comments still stand.
...that is, in fact, the situation here...perhaps you could address my comment about a business facing governmental sanction by engaging in a perfectly legal business decision, and one in which the only negative result is to the business itself...again, this is the issue here...
...of course, if you believe it is the purview of a government to force a business to contract with specific individuals, then your comments stand as stated...
IF you are in business there are certain laws which will regulate and govern you. That was true before this law. Case law already exists where an unmarried couple wanted to rent a room together. The rentor declined on religious grounds. Courts made them rent to anyway.
People have a choice at that point. Those are matters of conscience. A contract was being negotiated and the baker was fine with baking a cake UNTIL they found out the couple was homosexual. This is not unlike being willing to sell a house to a person UNTIL you find out they are of a different race or religion.
Part of the hard part of living under a constitution that respects minority rights (and that does not mean what some people think it means), is that one ends up being unhappy sometimes. NAZIs had to be allowed to march in Skokie,Illinois.
IF our legislators are that concerned then they should craft a well written bit that would allow protection for all sides.
The only way a person can avoid government riles and regulations is to hide in the hills somewhere and hope they are never found