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CMV: Christian bakers should not be allowed to refuse services to gay couples.

I understand people may be driven by religious conviction not to bake a cake for a gay couple, citing by doing so, would be tacit approval of relationships Christianity generally disagrees with.

My question is, why do they serve people who commit other sins in their religion/bible such as committing adultery, murder, stealing, working on the sabbath, divorce, not honoring their mother or father. 

Jesus spoke in great detail about divorce, I have never heard of a Christian baker refusing to bake a cake for a divorced couple.

If they applied this threshold to other customers, then I can respect this. But where they single out a certain group, that's when it gets fishy.

This leads me to believe it's driven primarily by homophobia and not deeply held religious beliefs. 

If it was deeply held religious beliefs, then I would be more prone to allow such refusal is service.

Also where to we draw the line, religious conviction was often used to justify miscegenation laws in the South.
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I think if you were to ask a Christian baker that refuses to bake a cake for a gay wedding to instead bake a cake for a divorce party they would likely still refuse. Still, any inconsistency of their beliefs isn't why you should change your perspective.

The fact is that business owners have rights and we should avoid infringing on those whenever possible. They aren't public servants that are required to bend at the knee any time someone enters their shop, and especially in the case of cake bakers no individual has a monopoly on the market. As long as there is an alternative any given business should be permitted to turn away any given customer at their discretion for whatever reason they see fit.

I think that most people *generally* respect a business owners' right to do this, but gay rights has been a particularly sensitive issue over the past few years. To give a similar example: 5 Klansmen walk into a baker's shop and ask that the baker make them a cake for a mock-lynch that they're going to do this weekend. The baker doesn't like the KKK and thinks that racism is disgusting and, as a result, refuses to bake them a cake. These Klansmen are acting completely within their legal rights under the first Amendment, but the baker wants nothing to do with it - because he doesn't like racists. Do you think the baker should still be forced to make them a cake?