maxparrish
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Ergo, if a customer orders a cake that says "god hates fags" the baker must make it?
Yes.
People who are paid to do a job must do their job. People who provide a commercial service must provide that service.
Discrimination on significant grounds may be permitted - a bar can refuse to sell liquor to drunks or minors, for example - but messengers cannot discriminate against customers based on the content of the message, any more than a bar can discriminate on the basis of skin colour.
So far the totality of your argument has been "people must do what bilby says they must do". Why must people who trade their labor for pay provide that service for every person who might wish to hire them? Isn't that called involuntary servitude?
There is NO DOUBT about the message the couple wanted conveyed, so the only remaining rationalization you proffer could be that the law can and should force people to convey messages that they disagree with because it is "not theirs". If so, then:
- A press agent or ad writer that is approached by the Aryan Nations Church to convey their "message" must do so or be charged with religious discrimination?
- A gay baker, if asked, must create a cake celebrating the Westboro Baptist Church?
- An actor or singer must, if approached for an event, sing the hymns of a fundamentalist religion?
- An atheist photographer, sculptor, or artist must make an abstract creation for a religious person's "message" or suffer a charge of discrimination?
Other than the fact you don't care about free speech, you have told us nothing.