A simple solution for the bakery owners is to have taken the order and subcontracted it to another baker or bakery who specializes in gay wedding cakes. Just tell the customer you cannot bake the cake for whatever reason (including religious beliefs), but you’ll have it special ordered for them and directly delivered to their wedding.
Whether anyone knows it or not, the bakery business employs many gay and lesbian cooks. many who would be proud to handle a special order of this nature. It shouldn’t be too hard to find one.
The two lesbos and the judge would never go for such a simple solution. It is obvious their intent is to inflict as much financial damage and humiliation on the Christians business owners for their religious beliefs. And they are twisting and misinterpreting the Oregon business laws to justify their case.
I know many will argue that the bakery owner’s beliefs are compromised even by subcontracting the cake order to someone else. I don’t believe they are condoning a sin by doing this. Instead, I think they wish to avoid judgement of the sinners and do not wish to be a part of the sin by baking them a cake. It’s a fine line either way. I wonder how King Solomon would have ruled in this situation?
But subcontracting is legal in Oregon as far as I know unless prohibited by some obscure law. It is an alternate way of delivering a service or product when there are reasons why the business owners cannot fill the order themselves. The bakery owners should never be forced by law to sell or deliver a product that is not in their best interests.
As a rebuttal to this idea, I present to you the wisdom of Rudyard Kipling.
IT is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation,
To call upon a neighbour and to say:—
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ’em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!It is always a temptation to a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say:—
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray,
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say:—“We never pay any one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost,
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost!”
It is only fine to discriminate against Christians’ faith.
Pray America is waking