That would include then as free people the freedom to say whatever you really think without being harassed and put down being told that you are chasing votes away from your own party without proof which is presumably made up of people who think as you do in the first place, right?
It's not against the law to be an asshole, otherwise, you'd be in prison rather than posting here.
If I ever am in a prison, it will only be to watch over the idiot inmates like you that in one thread persecutes people for their individuality, then comes here and think nothing of celebrating their right to be individual, even when it harms others!
Not helping someone isn't the same thing as harming them.
Who are you to say someone isn't harmed by being discriminated against simply for being gay, atheist, liberal, a democrat, muslim, christian, conservative, or a republican?
I generally don't like gays (I'd prefer not knowing their orientation just as I don't tell them mine), sharply disagree with atheists, and you won't find many who dislike liberals, democrats and muslims more than me, but I would never discriminate against any of them on that basis or any other basis, whether I was a baker or whatever! There is a huge difference in not liking or disagreeing with something and actually taking outward action against them. That is just my way of forcing my belief structure on someone else, and that is no more right than their forcing theirs on me.
I can't say what another person should do. If I was a baker in business to bake cakes for people and someone came in asking for a message on a cake I personally didn't agree with, I'd probably consider that part of the travails of being in business and so long as the message wasn't overtly threatening, defamatory or hostile, I'd probably put it on the cake and send them on their way. Then if it bothered me THAT MUCH, blame myself for not thinking out this scenario in advance, look into the legal ramifications of calling my bakery a CHRISTIAN bakery with a sign in the window explaining what types of cakes I would NOT make.
Likewise, if I were gay and was turned away for a gay message on the cake, I might not like it, but knowing that I can simply walk down the street to 1000 other bakeries, I doubt I would ask the federal government to get involved in putting someone out of business. I might not agree with their action, but I would have respected their right to make it. Just as it was my choice to be gay, I feel others have a right to run their business as they see fit so long as it doesn't actively harm others, and since it wasn't like they couldn't have simply gone to a different bakery, no real harm was done.
