Posted on 04/01/2015 6:08:55 PM PDT by ealgeone
For discussion purposes....
Pretend you own a bakery, or pizza place, et. The area in which you work is also one in which you live close by. You know your customers. You are a Christian.
A young man and woman are living together in the apartment above yours. You see them a couple of times a week and even say hello.
They come into your business and want to order a cake with the following inscription:
TWO YEARS TOGETHER
You know they're not married.
Do you bake the cake?
What say you Fellow Freepers
Bake and do you job.
I don’t care what the circumstances are. The baker is either a free person or not a free person. None of my business what the decision is either way.
Gosh. What a nice piece of sophistry.
The correct question would be, “Would you bake them a wedding cake?”
Sure. They’re getting married. See. This is how analogies work.
The homosexuals want WEDDING CAKES and WEDDING PHOTOS.
Try to stay up with the conversation.
Does your religious conscience matter?
So?
I think you need a better straw man. This one does not fly.
You presume they're getting married....they're just celebrating two years of living together.
Why do you think I posted the topic....because of the conversation.
That's a real life occurrence in the USA today.
It isn’t a wedding cake or wedding pizza if that is what you are trying to get at.
You think that this is the kind of discussion that is interesting at FR?
Here's my question....is living together outside of marriage with no intention of marriage any worse of a sin than being homosexual and wanting to get married?
Trust me....I'm not in the LGBT camp by any stretch nor am I advocating (no pun) for their position.
That is not the problem that ignited this firestorm.
You thought it enough so to reply.
I stopped playing ‘pretend’ at about age six, when I received my own rifle for deer season.
I agree, but from a Christian perspective....is living together any worse of a sin than homosexuality?
Perfect answer.
But others on this forum desperately want to control people and will tell the baker to do his “job”.
Even if they have to use the force of government.
If I liked them, I’d bake them a good cake. If they were just tolerable, I would have to think about it. Both options apply with respect to my having strong views on the religious context of marriage. It’s a matter of freedom as much as it is my relious views. And yes, I believe I should have the right to refuse service to anyone regardless of color, race, sex, national origin, or sexual orientation. That’s the problem.
The difference I see is that this cake could lead to marriage, a sacramental union between a man and a woman. JimRob nailed it, a same sex “marriage” is an unholy union in the eyes of God.
Far be it from me to answer for anyone else but the sin of heterosexual cohabitation can be regularized by marriage, the sin of homosexuality cannot be regularized by anything other than its cessation.
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