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Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes? The truth is, there is already plenty interference is private business, but it (seems) to not be evenly ap
by Chris2048 6y ago
Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes?
The truth is, there is already plenty interference is private business, but it (seems) to not be evenly applied. If I request a library stock (or borrow) a book that I'd like to read, I don't consider political aesthetics to be a valid reason to refuse.
> I'm sure there are plenty of Christian book stores / libraries out there who are unwilling to stock The God Delusion
Do you mean a normal bookstore owned by Christians, or a specialist bookstore that only stocks christian literature? If the store could refuse any non-christian material (e.g. a cookbook) as well as Dawkins books, I'm not sure if that's censorship - a greengrocer can also refuse to stock The God Delusion on similarly reasonable grounds.
- scottious 6y ago> Why would a christian bakery sell gay wedding cakes? I think we've decided as a society that sexual orientation is a protected group. You cannot discriminate based on sexual orientation. But I think you can still discriminate based on views of what is racist and what is not? If a white guy walks into black-owned barber shop and throws around racial slurs at the barbers, can the owners of that barber shop refuse him service and kick him out? I certainly hope so... but am I being hypocritical? Honestly I'm out of my depth here. I have opinions but I don't think my opinions are necessarily as informed as I want them to be.
- Chris2048 6y ago> If a white guy walks into black-owned barber shop.. What kind of example is this? Does it matter what the respective races are? How is this equivalent to the wedding-cake example? As for "sexual orientation is a protected group"; religion is also protected.