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There is nothing required to be a wedding cake. There is no legal standard, or any standard.But it's not the exact same product when the message says, "Congratulations Bruce and Walter" or has 2 women perched on the top.They didnt have any problem serving the public. They had a problem printing T-shirts with messages that violated their conscience Didn you read the link?This is not freedom of religion. Ordering T shirts isn't preventing one from practicing religion.
This is freedom to discriminate.
If you don't want to serve all the public make your store membership only.
You're right, the court ruled that it doesn't have to print a specific message on the T-shirts.
However, when the product being sold is the exact same (ie. Wedding Cakes, wedding photos, etc.) and you are denying those exact same products to a person based on their sexual orientation, you are discriminating. Period.
And that's it in a nut shell. If Bruce wants to but Walt a birthday cake that says Happy Birthday on top, the subject of homosexuality doesn't enter into the conversation. Once Bruce asks for 2 men in tuxes perched on top, the baker's religious convictions come into play.
A wedding cake itself is a 5 layered cake stacked up like a pyramid. They aren't putting messages on there and they don't have to be the one to put the figures on top of the cake. But the specific cake being baked is the same product.
EDIT: 3-5 layers is typical. Either way, if they sell a 3 layer wedding cake to the general public, they have to sell it to everyone without discrimination.