Warbler said:

Mrebo said:The couple sued and won. I expressed the view that the judge was right.

Mrebo said:

But the idea that we have to force that baker to make the cake for gay couples is silly.

I'm confused.

In a more ideal world, the discriminated against couple would just go to another bakery, not file a lawsuit that serves to force someone out of business or force them to provide for an event that he feels sinful. My views are informed by the fact that a majority of bakeries would still be available for the gay couple to get a cake from (which they did), the baker's insistence that he had no problem serving gay customers in general, and the sincerity that he just felt it was wrong for him to provide the wedding cake. It wasn't a dire situation as existed for blacks in our history.

I'm saying I think the judge is right on the law. The baker was being asked to make a cake. Making cakes is not against his religion, nor is even making them for gay people. The only thing he didn't want to do is to make a cake knowing it would be used for a specific event. So while his discomfort is understandable, it can be said to be rather removed from forcing him to violate his religion in some way. That is why it makes sense to say he cannot discriminate in making of cakes. In the previous paragraph, I'm just saying maybe he should be allowed to be as sensitive as he wants.

Mrebo said: I was then accused of being an effeminate communist.

you hang out with really extreme and crazy conservatives.

It's the internet. All partisans on the internet can get batty when challenged.