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WanderingEng  ·  3093 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religious Freedom - HELP ME

Jumping in here, it doesn't sound like hate speech to me. The line I draw is between requiring someone to believe something and requiring them to do something.

A church is a non-public institution providing services to its members. As such, the church is not expected to provide services, including membership and marriage services, to whomever requests them. A metaphor might be a private country club. I can't play golf there, and a hay couple can't have a wedding with a catholic priest.

When a gay couple orders a wedding cake, they are not asking the baker to approve of their wedding. The baker provides services to the public as a whole; they aren't a non-public institution. Therefore (to me, a non-religious person), the baker should be expected to provide the service, barring any non-protected reason preventing them (e.g. if they're booked solid, so be it). The baker is expected to do but not expected to believe.