They are the definition of haters. They can’t wait until right-wing Christian theocracy in America is instituted.

They also orchestrated a campaign of harrassment online against these people who just wanted a fucking cake for their wedding. They got death threats from strangers, just because they tried to buy a cake.

They weren’t asked to make a cake of two women scissoring. There was nothing particularly gay about the cake...it was the people buying the cake. All the bakers had to do was call them up the next day and said they had inadertantly booked too many gigs for that weekend and couldn’t do their cake and nobody would have…

This wasn’t just about “the inconvenience of having to find another baker.” The owners of the bakery didn’t just refuse to bake them a cake; they also posted the couples full names, address, phone number, and email onto Facebook and encouraged people to harass them.

Wait just a damn minute. Gay wedding cakes aren't covered in rainbows and vaginas and dicks? This is really bad news.

1) It’s supposed to hurt. A LOT. The point of a fine isn’t just to compensate for damages, it’s to be hefty enough to deter people from just eating it and moving on.

So businesses shouldn’t be punished when they do something wrong because employees might be hurt? Do you feel the same way when restaurants violate health codes and are shut down until they pass inpection ? The waiters aren’t earning tips when the place is closed, after all. What about an amusement park that is found…

Sure, I felt that way as a child. Now I am an adult.

The reason these people are so honest about their discrimination is that they really feel justified in it. They are in controlled spaces with like-minded people who remind them that exclusion is good. In a prior decade, they’d be saying: “No hard feelings, though! It’s not that I don’t like you, it’s your color.” A…

It’s not just for refusing them service. It’s also because the baker published the couple’s names and home address on the Internet and encouraged people to harass them. It’s for all of the emotional damage.

There was just a similar videographer case here. They explicitly told the couple why they wouldn’t work with them and did apologize (sorrynotsorry) that their beliefs wouldn’t let them work together. Even as a staunch ally, I am dumbfounded that the videographer didn’t just say “sorry I’m booked that weekend". I know…

THAT’S THE POINT.

I’ve begun to notice that a lot of people railing against this ruling seem to have a fucked up mental picture of a “gay wedding cake” being covered in Gay Pride flags and dicks/vaginas and stuff.

And the political right creates a false equivalence between literally every law. “Oh, I can’t punch this homeless guy, but he can sit on the sidewalk all he wants?”

Why on earth make it ruinous to break the law, why! Why. I'm stomping and everything.

For any who think this is a First Amendment issue:

Well, it did just get posted. And it’s a long read. I prefer commentors who read first, personally.

Yeah... men are afraid that men will kill them too (which is actually more likely). It doesn’t mean we walk around terrified all the time. Christ - grow a pair.

Yep. I agree with you that exposure is really the way toward changing people’s minds. If you’re presented with an idea frequently enough and over a long period of time, you start to become more comfortable with it.

Oh come the fuck on, Attack of the Clones is the worst Star Wars movie.