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Well, Todd Starnes is at it again. He has discovered a baker who refused to bake a cake with anti-gay messages on it.
Double Standard ! screams Todd. Religious freedon is being impinged upon!
Surely an interesting question. If you cannot refuse to serve one customer, can you refuse to serve another?
This warrants some serious discussion.
However, Starnes's job isn't to engage in serious discussion. It is to allow his readers to feign victimhood at every turn.
I will comment on two things.
First, Starnes fails to mention that the baker who refused to bake the anti-gay cake recieved death threats from the good christian folk. This is the same intolerance that he decrided when the pizza shop lady got her death threats.
But, that goes unnoticed here.
Todd misses a chance to be an honest broker in protecting freedom.
Secondly, I don't think that it's proper to equate a cake that someone orders to celebrate an event in their life with a cake that some provacateur ordered for the sole purpose of attacking another group.
For example: there is a huge difference between making a cake that says "God hates Gays", with one that says "Best Wishes john and Hal"
Colorado double standard: Bakers should not be forced to make anti-gay