All of that is your opinion. Luckily we have the 1st amendment to protect them from you using government to enforce your opinion.
Wait a second...it's
their opinion that baking a cake is somehow a violation of their religious beliefs. They do so without proof. Your avoidance here is very telling. I think it's because you recognize this isn't even a belief issue now, it's a sincerity issue. The sincerity grounds seems to be one you're not entirely steady on, nor is it one that relates to the first amendment.
So you say they say it's their religious freedumb, yet you don't question the sincerity of that religious belief. Seems to me that the bigotry came first, and the religious justifications for that bigotry followed.
So let's cast aside that they have the
opinion that baking a cake violates their religious freedumb, and investigate the sincerity behind that belief. So this is where the point of God's forgiveness comes into play. Apparently, God's forgiveness isn't a part of their dogma which is bizarre since the entire point of Christianity is that God forgives. There's no disagreement on that point because that's what they evangelize. Are you now denying that is what they evangelize? So since they evangelize that sincerely, the arguments they make that God doesn't forgive can't be sincere arguments, can they? And if so, how?
All you do is fall back on 1A without even bothering to explain how any of this relates to the 1A. It doesn't. That's why those bakers are in court, and why they've lost every court appearance thus far.
Defending someone else's rights even if you disagree with them is not having it both ways.
So you're trying to conflate religious rights with sincerity. That by virtue of having faith, everything following is sincere. I'm saying that's a pretty big presumption to make, given the history. I question the sincerity of their religious beliefs. I don't think they or you can prove these beliefs are sincere because the beliefs came after the bigotry, not before, as justification for bigotry. So the inherent position is that they know they're being bigots, but they justify it by hiding behind the skirt of "religious freedumb" that you define so broadly, you might as well not even use the term at all.
Who cares about scripture? I'm defending a constitutional principle here.
I thought the whole reason they refuse to bake a cake is because of their scripture. Now you're saying it isn't? Your position on this seems to be all over the place, and ever-changing depending on how badly you've painted yourself into the corner with your rhetoric. So you pretend this is a Constitutional issue, but we both know it's not because if it was, there would be sincerity behind their religious beliefs. But there obviously isn't since you're all trying to have it both ways; God forgives and God doesn't. That screams insincerity to me. And I think it does to you too, which is why you avoid it and try to make this a Constitutional issue. You're right...it is a Constitutional issue...
a 14th Amendment issue, not a 1st Amendment one.
Again, not material to the argument.I'm defending their rights, not their positions. Again, I know it's hard for you to grasp that.
Because you say so? No, that's not how debate works. What's immaterial to the argument is you screeching like a
whiny little ***** that I'm not going after Islam on this thread about Christian bakers.