Gay Wedding Cakes
Are we still dealing with these things where the baker doesn't want to bake a gay wedding cake and the couple gets mad and asks the government to make them do it?
I feel like this has happened multiple times. Or maybe this is the same cake, back in the headlines? Not sure.
Anyways,
After a judge ruled in favor of the bakery, the attorney for the couple has blamed the ruling on a conservative bias:
We are disappointed but not surprised by ruling against the preliminary injunction. Bakersfield and Kern County, in general, is very conservative and that, unfortunately, includes some of the judges. But it’s not over. Our fight against bigotry and discrimination is only beginning.
Oh please.
You can't force virtue. You don't encourage people to be tolerant by forcing them to do things that they didn't want to do.
Now, I've sucked my fair share of dick in my day. And I can tell you without a doubt that if somebody doesn't want to bake a cake for me because of this, then I kind of wouldn't want them to. I'd rather go somewhere else.
Whatever reasoning is going on in their head, nobody owes it to you to bake you a cake. Unless you think you own them and their labor, then you have to accept that they don't need a good reason or even any reason at all to choose not to do it. You don't get to decide what they're comfortable with.
I'd rather live in a world where a few people are homophobic or bothered by gay relationships or whatever than a world where we can fundamentally claim to own somebody else and get away with it.
And plus I'd rather live in a world where people felt free to express bigoted ideas. If you force everyone to go through the motions of pretending to be tolerant, then it's harder to recognize and support the people who actually are.
The real bigotry going on here is that you can't respect somebody's right to feel bothered or uncomfortable about whatever the heck they want to be bothered or uncomfortable about.
The correct move is to find one of the infinitely many other bakeries who will not feel this way and will bake the cake for you.
You could even post a review on the first bakery's Yelp page, and in a weird twist of fate maybe reem them with Adam Smith's invisible hand.
But trying to force them to make a cake for you (and worse, accusing the court of bias when they make a very basic and obviously correct decision) is doing no good for anything and makes you the crazy ones.
Litigating this is just a political stunt. Liberals assume that people are stupid and can be hurded like sheep into socialism by playing up these stories (and I can't blame them for trying because it has worked with racially charged stories for years).
It's basically just a political ploy to make gay people believe the stereotype that republicans are bigots. 90% of white straight conservative Christians would just bake the cake and move on with their day and not think about it again. Of course there are some that wouldn't and they aren't difficult to find with some research.
The bottom line is you aren't ever going to get 100% of people to like you no matter who you are. Not baking the cake might be ridiculous, but asking a court to force someone to bake you a cake is far worse. Court ordered force labor is inhumane and removes the dignity of people.
By the way, can you imagine all the boogers and snot rockets (who knows what else) that are going to go into that cake if the gay couple won? It would be stupid to eat any food, for any reason, that you forced someone to cook for you through litigation.
lolllll exactly, that meme sums it up so much.
Unfortunate that they don't want to bake the cake, but that being the case obviously you don't really want it now.
Yup, and I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that non-white, non-Christian liberals are WAY more likely to not bake the cake if it was a cause they disagreed with.
(It just doesn't get whined about or become a court case or gain any media traction.)
Projection, basically.
Liberals will spring into action to support LGBT or remind people that they aren't racist, I think similar to how someone who smells bad will reach for the perfume. It's a superficial way to seem tolerant and open-minded, but really they're way more likely to be hateful and hostile towards people who conflict or disagree with them.
Let the market handle discriminatory businesses. Seriously.
yup!!!
it's not as tho discriminating makes sense from a business perspective
Lol. You sure can't!
Pun intended?
No comment!
i really don't know what happen to the world, from the same sex marriage agreement successful! and now they are forcing a cake baker to make the cake for them? sucks!!
It's weird! Fortunately the court ruled against them.
Scary that there are these people who genuinely believe they should be forced to bake something.
they just really don't know what they are doing.. maybe they just quite and be patient..