There’s a value to being the incumbent. Upstarts rarely win when people are generally satisfied with the way things are.

If you can’t understand that there’s a market for ideas, then Marxism has rotten your brain.

That’s because the more radically progressive candidates don’t appeal to a wide audience, IRL.

A gay wedding cake is like a normal wedding cake, only more fabulous.

He can pick an choose which products and services are part of his business.

No worries.

Hysterical take.

Yes, not the best analogy in the world. I’ve made better (I hope) elsewhere on this thread.

Nothing pathetic about you at all. No sir.

Way to miss the point, champ.

Yes. There are more interesting people to discuss with on this thread than you. Bye.

Look, I agree that he’s being an asshole and personally would have done as the other baker did. My larger point is that freedom of speech extends to the freedom to not speak.

Successfully, it would appear.

One is a freedom of speech issue. One is discrimination. It’s not that hard.

Why didn’t the baker did the same thing that another baker did when asked to put anti-gay messages on a cake: provide the cake and told the clients to arrange the message themselves?

Has anyone ever told you that you have a wonderful sense of humor?

So you ARE going full disingenuous.

In this case, freedom of speech.

That’s my understanding as well. It has more to do with compelled speech.