“I don’t have any idea how to do right by this work, so I’m returning your commission deposit” is not discriminatory. “I don’t accept commissions from protecte

“I don’t have any idea how to do right by this work, so I’m returning your commission deposit” is not discriminatory. “I don’t accept commissions from protected classes” is discriminatory. The artist preemptively declared the latter, and was promptly found to be discriminating under existing law. If you’re asked to bake a cake and you don’t think you can do their needs justice, saying so is not discriminatory, and is not itself sufficient evidence of a pattern that could be used against you successfully. If you refuse to bake cakes for every non-hetero wedding in a region, those you refuse will probably figure this out and will probably succeed at a discrimination case against you. (I am not your lawyer, comments on Internet forums are not legal advice.)