Or you could just realize you’re in the cake making business and stop whining and worrying about what people are doing around the cake. Really this whole kerfuffle is idiocy pretending to be principal, make the cake, get their money, move on with your life. Or if you really really don’t want to, lie, tell them your booked, and move on with your life. Once you decide you need to approve of your customers you’ve opened up a can of worms that leads to no good at all.
The 1st Amendment religious freedom argument is obvously lost on you. You're not even up to speed on the actual issues!
What you advocate is either throwing away personal religious principles, or living a life of lying - and you're recommending these things with exasperated trivialization and contempt. On a conservative website? Really?
Approving of customers is done every day, in every way. You think you should be given a job just because you show up? Or does a business have a right to approve of you? You think just because someone is a potential customer, they are beyond any approval requirement from any privately-owned business?
So to you, commerce is God? Open a business, and that's it - you have to do whatever anyone wants? And you cannot decide on the limits of your own business, your own work, or live by your own religious principles?
You're not even American. I don't know what you are.
“Or if you really really don’t want to, lie.”
There’s good advice for folks standing on religious principles.
Sorry, I rarely do this, but you are an idiot.
all you need to do is say that the groom-groom decoration is special order and very expensive. There are many ways to keep from doing what goes against your conscience without have to outright say “no”.
I do like the observation of going to a gay printer and having them print out “gay conversion therapy” literature.