You think business owners deciding whom they wish to do business with will kill commerce in America? I sure as hell don't. I think the government should butt out and let the consumers decide if such practices are worthy of their money or not.
So you agree with discrimination in commerce. You agree with segregation. Nope. Can't agree. Not all people live in urban areas in which there are lots of choices. If you accept a business license and advertise that you provide services or goods to the public, then do it. Don't get into false advertising. "We have the best burgers in town, but we won't serve one to you!" Bullshit. Are you open to the public or not?
We are one nation, or aren't we?
So you believe that government can force people to go against their moral code for any reason?
So the rights of the LGBT person to get a cake from THAT baker overrides their free exercise of religion?
Please note that he does not refuse service to gay people altogether, only custom cakes for Same sex weddings. He also doesn't do halloween cakes, and other cakes that go against his religion.
Also, see below for another article on the topic. Also note what other cakes were asked for (and refused)
The State Of Colorado Is Still Trying To Destroy Jack Phillips
In one call, Scardina allegedly
asked for “an image of Satan smoking marijuana.” In another, members of “the Church of Satan” asked for “a three-tiered white cake” with a “large figure of Satan, licking a nine inch black Dildo.” “I would like the dildo to be an actual working model that can be turned on before we unveil the cake,” went the request. You can just sense the sanctimonious smugness of people who think this sort of thing is edgy.
So all of us Americans have to bow down to anyone's and everyone's "moral code." There are many. The "free exercise of religion" is secondary to the rule of law and does not trump the rights of others. Each and every one of us has to abide by the law.
Incidentally, what this phillips jerk is doing has absolutely nothing to do with the Christian faith, which he is out to shit all over. Why are these nuts trying to destroy the Christian faith? They are pigs.
How is having to go to another baker "bowing down" to their moral code?
Why does he have to "bow down" to either the couple in question or the government? It's not like he denies service completely to gay people, just in this one specific instance.
If they asked for a generic birthday cake, he would make it. As my link shows, when asked by a Church of Satan idiot to make a cake with Satan sucking off a real dildo, he refused that as well.
A business person who is delivering the goods or services he or she has openly advertised is "bowing down" to his or her customers??? This jackass chooses a business license. If he doesn't want it, he can surrender it and stop advertising, or just sell cupcakes, brownies, cookies, and sandwich rolls.
Anyway, if his business is incorporated, the business is legally an "it," not a human individual capable of holding religious beliefs, and there is no reason to give him the benefit of being shielded from personal liability while also allowing him to have it both ways.
Making a cake for a customer when one openly advertises the business makes cakes does not involve any "moral code."
Phillips is just another dumb piece of trash seeking fame.