BVS
Blue Crack Supplier
There's a difference between a tshirt company or a baker not wanting to print a message that is offensive to them and not offering services because of their innate characteristics. If a baker refused to put a pro-gay slogan on a wedding cake then that would be okay.
What is not okay is not baking a simple, neutral wedding cake for a gay couple because they're gay. That would be discriminating against a person based on innate characteristics.
Another example, a grocery store or barbershop has no right to refuse service to a neo-Nazi if they're simply shopping at the store. But, a tshirt company can refuse to print neo-Nazi slogans on a tshirt.
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I completely agree that a barbershop or grocery store shouldn't be able to refuse their services, BUT I do believe the baker has the right to refuse a gay wedding if that is against their beliefs. As much as I disagree with their stance, in THEIR mind they are condoning something they don't believe in. Just like that baker has the right to refuse a KKK wedding, even if the cake they were asked to do has no message on it.
There is no such thing as a neo-nazi, gay, black, white, or Republican haircut(despite all stereotypes) so a barber's services are not condoning anything, nor is the selling of groceries. BUT t-shirts, cakes, catering, djing, sign making, etc. these businesses come with some condoning of a message, and I believe they have the right to refuse such condoning, as wrong as they might be.