[Kazan]

Anyone thinking the vast majority of the American people don't have protecting the religious conscience rights of citizens is disconnected from reality and mired in doom and gloom.

What happened in Arizona was a combination of the media distorting the intent to the legislation, inept politicians that couldn't articulately defend the legislation (and or craft it) and gutless politicians that caved into political correctness.

[Pollster1]

Decent people have a God-given moral right to turn down demands that they endorse or support activities that they find morally repugnant. Whether we have a legal right to the free exercise of our religion has changed recently, and that legal right appears to be dead. Still, we are only commanded to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, which is not much in this world. We are commanded to render unto God the things that are God’s, and that must include our artistic expression in all aspects of life, and not just our activities during one hour every Sunday morning.

[linn37]

Personally I’d take the job. However if I didn’t want to do it I would just triple my price so they would look elsewhere.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Lesbian to Baker: "My partner and I have decided to tie the knot! We'd like to order a special wedding cake.

Baker: "Bake a cake for your gay wedding? Oh, absolutely!!! We offer a special gay wedding cake celebrating the perversion of marriage.

Baker: "It's our Gay Marriage Cake!! It communicates that gay marriage is a perversion of what God created!"

Lesbian: "That is ugly! What about the cake picture in the window?"

Baker: "Oh, that cake is part of the Straight Wedding Cake Package we offer to our straight customers. We offer the Gay Wedding Cake Package to our lesbian and gay customers. How many people do you want it to serve?"

[Crucial]

I don’t understand how anyone can be “forced” to do a job for someone. It sounds like slavery to me.

[Eva]

No one can force the photographer to work a wedding he doesn’t want to work. All he has to do is state a very high fee to be paid in advance. If the couple still want to hire the photographer, he should go for it.

A for the the cake baker, the cake should be baked and held for pick up, paid in advance. The cake baker does not need to know the details of the wedding, just what kind of cake and how it is to be decorated. Follow a don’t ask don’t tell policy, only one name appearing on the sales receipt, the person who will pay in advance.