Certainly can be a thorny issue but, whether you agree with it or not, the courts settled the question about discriminating based on sex, religion, race, etc.
And yet that is exactly what the courts did themselves. miles
The courts DID discriminate against the Christians. The Christians did NOT sexually discriminate. The sexual ORIENTATION of gays is not the same as the sex of the participants. The sex of the participants is female. They did not refuse the cake because of the sex of the women. They refused because their religion does not allow them to condone or encourage the act of sin the women were implying with the cake.
The bakery based their decision on the gender of the customers, and nothing else. They weren't required to "condone or encourage" anything. All they had to do was bake a cake, just like all the other cakes they bake.
No. They had to bake a cake for a lesbian couple. That cake symbolized what their religion regarded as sin.
