This is Jordan.
this cake maker was asked to make a wedding cake for two gay people and he refused. I think that it is within his rights to refuse to make a cake. he can follow his own religion, and I think that the courts should not force him to make things that go against his religion.
This is a link to the video of their defense.
What is someone refuses to bake a cake for an interracial marriage, is that okay?
ReplyDeleteYes. Making a cake is something they choose to do. It's his right to bake a cake, so it's also his right not to make a cake.
DeleteThis is Caden by the way!
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DeleteSo, fundamentally, this comes down to a question of whether or not this is a form of artistic expression that is protected by free speech and religion laws or whether this is a basic service guaranteed to be offered without regard for race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. If this were a grocery store or an apartment complex, there would be no question that they would have to offer the service. If this were an artist doing a painting, he could refuse the painting based on his right to freedom of expression. Wedding cakes are a gray area. In a mass produced way, a wedding cake does not seem like artistic expression, so it wouldn't seem to be protected by free speech laws. However, in a small shop like this, cakes are very customized, and a pastry chef like Jack might spend just as long doing a wedding cake as an artist would spend on a painting. It may be just as individualized. His defense will argue that his cakes meet the definition of art and is thus his right to use his art to express his beliefs should be protected, especially since he refused to do an event rather than refusing to help a person. The gay couple will argue that a wedding cake is just a service and therefore falls under anti-discrimination laws.
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