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There is a breakdown in the analogy of comparing the wedding cake/photographer cases with the earlier not serving blacks situation. It would be the same IF the baker/photographer refused to work with gay people in any capacity. For example, if the baker wouldn't sell a gay person a birthday cake or donuts. Or the photographer wouldn't take pictures of two gay people together. Those I would agree are discriminatory in a business setting.
However, in these cases, the only indications is that they wouldn't serve the wedding. That is a significant difference and is indicative that it is not because the people are gay but because they believe gay marriage goes against their beliefs and do not feel they can participate.
FWIW, my personal beliefs would allow me to sell the cake or take the pictures at the wedding. But I also fully grasp how some would find that doesn't reconcile with their sincere beliefs. And that does not mean fear or loathing of the people is involved.
And again, unless the baker is also turning away the non-Christian wedding cakes, the baby shower cakes of the single mothers, refusing service to the divorced couple getting remarried to new partners, the couple who already has kids, or anybody serving pork, the whole "my morality forbids it" thing is deeply conditional.
The only time people seem to feel so compelled to follow their faith to the letter is when it gets them out of something they really don't want to do in the first place.
You find me the baker who whips out his Bible with his cake order form to ensure the people he's providing a cake to are adhering to the tenants of his faith as he sees it and not secular or non-Christian beliefs, I'll rethink my stance. But the fact is, I've yet to see the person who's rejecting a service to homosexuals as he or she does other "sinners" according to his or her faith. It's the "being gay" that seems to be the sticking point, not lack of adherence to their faith.
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