What Happens When Someone Tries to Get a Gay Wedding Cake at a Muslim Bakery?
Recently there has been a lot of liberal outrage over Christian business owners not wanting to participate in activities such as designing a wedding cake with two grooms and the idea that a business owner is or is not free to decide what business they wish to take on has been presented as a civil rights issue.
Personally I think no one should be forced to (in effect) endorse anything that makes them uncomfortable - and besides that, there are plenty of business owners who will be happy to accommodate all customers - that's how capitalism works.
This isn't just about gay rights or civil rights. I'm sure we can all think of things we personally would find offensive and would prefer not to have to do. I could make a list of offensive statements below and ask "Would you want to write that on a cake if you were a baker?" What if you reasonably felt that a huge portion of your clientele would be so upset if they knew you did make such a cake that they would boycott you and drive you out of business?
Imagine working hard to build up your bakery business, caving in to a customer's less-than-desirable request, and finding that "your" cake creation was being displayed online with millions of views on various sites because - in the icing - you had celebrated racism, or domestic abuse, or abortion, or rape, or pedophilia, or one of a thousand other things - because by law, you had to? Don't business owners have rights too?
In THIS VIDEO, a man tries to order a gay wedding cake at a Muslim bakery. Lots of bakeries. As expected, he is repeatedly told to go elsewhere. Not every time, but many times.
If the liberal media's true concern were the civil rights of those ordering the cake, this video would be viral, and they would be complaining about Muslim discrimination against gays. I hear crickets chirping. Just like when people point out that the new law in Indiana is the same as existing laws in other states and an existing federal law. Which tells me the emphasis is really not in support of consumers' rights, but a concern with bashing the rights of Christians who object to liberal social issues.