Have your cake, repeated.

qwert_yuiop

saverbuyer wrote: »

If the same gay baker was making cakes saying "support gay marriage" then yes there would probably be grounds for a case. If they are happy to provide cakes with political messages they can't discriminate on grounds of sexual orientation.

So there you have it - you're not allowed to object to gay marriage. George Orwell, where are you now?

motorguy

saverbuyer wrote: »

You realise the Tesco soldier story flying about on facebook was a myth. It didn't actually happen.

Is anything on Facebook real?


Next you'll be telling me there isn't an angel who will give me good fortune if I pass on some picture or other, and i'm still waiting on Bill Gates to send me that £1,000 he supposedly promised everyone who shared a picture of him. Or that "liking" a picture of a sick child (who actually made a full recovery five years ago) will help them get better.


Soooo glad I closed my facebook account.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

So there you have it - you're not allowed to object to gay marriage. George Orwell, where are you now?

Personally, I don't mind what happens behind closed doors as long as no one rams it down my throat.

saverbuyer

motorguy wrote: »

Its incredibly naïve to think that a gay rights activist group member just "happened" to ask a known Christian run cake shop to bake a cake with a slogan against their religious beliefs, and then was "offended" when they wouldn't.


It was a set up from the start.

I'm not sure if it was or it wasn't. It's beside the point really. He has the right to take the case to court. The equality commission and the Christian institute wanted to get the law clarified and now we have it.

CEON44

motorguy wrote: »

Personally, I don't mind what happens behind closed doors as long as no one rams it down my throat.

Yeek! no pun intended

saverbuyer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

So there you have it - you're not allowed to object to gay marriage. George Orwell, where are you now?

No, you can object to gay marriage all you want. You're simply not allowed to provide a service that only reflects your own political or religious message in relation to sexual orientation.

saverbuyer

motorguy wrote: »

Is anything on Facebook real?


Next you'll be telling me there isn't an angel who will give me good fortune if I pass on some picture or other, and i'm still waiting on Bill Gates to send me that £1,000 he supposedly promised everyone who shared a picture of him. Or that "liking" a picture of a sick child (who actually made a full recovery five years ago) will help them get better.


Soooo glad I closed my facebook account.

I didn't quote the facebook story as fact. The previous poster used it as an example of discrimination. What protected right soldiering falls under I'm not sure.

motorguy

saverbuyer wrote: »

I didn't quote the facebook story as fact. The previous poster used it as an example of discrimination. What protected right soldiering falls under I'm not sure.

Oh I know - I was having a dig at facebook and people who take everthing as gospel that's on there as an aside (which seems to include my entire family circle!!), not at you.

motorguy

saverbuyer wrote: »

I'm not sure if it was or it wasn't. It's beside the point really. He has the right to take the case to court. The equality commission and the Christian institute wanted to get the law clarified and now we have it.

Was it not for a gay rights event?


Well i'm all for peoples rights, particularly when being oppressed and their right to be offended, however to go out of your way to be offended is out of order frankly.


I don't think its any coincidence at all that a strong proponent of gay rights just "happened" to pick that bakery (of all the thousands in NI)


But then its hardly the first time it has happened here - all those republicans who have to travel miles from their homes to be offended by orange marches...

saverbuyer

motorguy wrote: »

But then its hardly the first time it has happened here - all those republicans who have to travel miles from their homes to be offended by orange marches...

Ah come on now Paul... Did you have to go there...