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Since traffic was terrible this morning and my iPod's batteries were too dead to work effectively, I was stuck with the radio, and as is my unfortunate wont, I dialed into the morning's AM radio and stumbled upon right-wing talk show host Mike Gallagher commisserating with an interview subject about how "Government had become God, the arbiter of right and wrong, and was forcing Christian businesses to have to serve sin."

One of the cases cited was of a bakery in Oregon that, last year, had refused to bake a wedding cake for a lesbian couple and been consequently sued under Portland's anti-discrimination ordinance. A local alt-weekly called them up a few times over the course of the following year and ordered: (1) "Get Well Cupcakes" for "a friend who'd just undergone a stem cell transplant" operation, (2) a black "divorce party" cake, (3) a baby shower cake "since my girlfriend is about to have our second child," and (4) a 30th anniversary cake "for our coven's solstice celebration," complete with a pentacle design.

Arguably, divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth are far more dangerous to the well-being of society than consensual love and marriage. I really don't get why Christianism wants to die on that hill.

Date: 2014-03-06 08:26 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bemused-leftist.livejournal.com
Maybe getting sued over the gay cake, made them preemptively abandon those other hills?

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