An intersting letter in the WSJ about that "Masterpiece cakeshop"

[question everything]

My father, and his father before him, were kosher caterers—they only served kosher food. This was an expression of their religion and their desire to provide service to people who maintained certain religious customs. You could no more ask them to serve pork at a wedding than you could go into a shoe store and ask them to sell you a hat. However, they would gladly hold a wedding reception for people who didn’t themselves keep kosher, or for that matter people who weren’t Jewish. Their religion dictated what they sold, not who they sold it to.

If we allow the sellers’ religious beliefs to dictate who they serve, rather than what they serve, then some Catholic cake bakers might not bake wedding cakes for those who were divorced; where would we draw the line on who could buy these wedding cakes?

Everyone has the right to select a business that allows them to act according to his own faith, conscience and sacred honor, but once he opens his doors to the public, he must serve the people who come through those doors.

Bob Denmark

East Hanover, N.J.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/masterpiece-cakeshop-might-follow-the-kosher-example-1513795223

[Irish_Dem]

1. Most excellent letter. nt

[exboyfil]

2. Can a bake shop be compelled

To put two grooms on a cake?

[question everything]

3. These are plastics, right?

So why not handle the grooms to the buyers and let them put them on top?

[PoliticAverse]

4. "dictate who they serve, rather than what they serve" - the limitation of that argument...

is it would compel the bakers to sell a cake to someone having a same-sex wedding - "who they serve" - but not to
decorate it with say two grooms instead of a bride and groom at the top - "what they serve". Would that be acceptable?

[procon]

5. Exactly. Businesses control the quality of their goods and services, but they

cannot control who can be their customers.

[Angry Dragon]

6. my thoughts exactly