Have your cake, repeated.

qwert_yuiop

saverbuyer wrote: »

Religious organization usually have specific opt out clause or exemption from gender discrimination. The same sex marriage act has the quadruple lock for instance. The equality act also has an exemption for priests.

Oooooh! It's just not fair.

Would it therefore be acceptable to declare your establishment to be an independent reformed non subscribing bakery? Would that be a big enough loophole?

motorguy

saverbuyer wrote: »

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

Fair enough - no i didnt.

Apologies.

qwert_yuiop

motorguy wrote: »

people who take everthing as gospel that's on there.

Ah, how apposite. The King James edition or the original Greek?

qwert_yuiop

Does anyone know if this activist will be looking for compensation from Asher's for his hurt feelings?

Face it - more upset is caused by childish banter in school playgrounds every break time.

I was out the other night and I heard one lad call another a !!!!!!. Later on someone spilled someone else's pint. I'm pretty sure someone else called my pint a !!!!!! and I could have taken offence, but I just ignored him. Now that I think of it, I'm quite upset.

Surely someone who has grown up gay with all the nastiness that entails, knows better than to go out of his way to upset and insult others? Pretty vindictive activism.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Ah, how apposite. The King James edition or the original Greek?

LOL.

Used as a coin of phrase. I dont have an invisible friend in the sky.

motorguy

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Does anyone know if this activist will be looking for compensation from Asher's for his hurt feelings?

Face it - more upset is caused by childish banter in school playgrounds every break time.

I was out the other night and I heard one lad call another a !!!!!!. Later on someone spilled someone else's pint. I'm pretty sure someone else called my pint a !!!!!! and I could have taken offence, but I just ignored him. Now that I think of it, I'm quite upset.

Surely someone who has grown up gay with all the nastiness that entails, knows better than to go out of his way to upset and insult others? Pretty vindictive activism.

There are religious types who i really do find offensive, but i find it hard to be offended by religious types who make buns and cakes. And very nice ones at that.

To go out of your way - as clearly the activist did - to find offence and create such a furore is a fairly nasty thing to do.

saverbuyer

qwert_yuiop wrote: »

Does anyone know if this activist will be looking for compensation from Asher's for his hurt

He got 500 quid.

saverbuyer

motorguy wrote: »

There are religious types who i really do find offensive, but i find it hard to be offended by religious types who make buns and cakes. And very nice ones at that.

To go out of your way - as clearly the activist did - to find offence and create such a furore is a fairly nasty thing to do.

We don't know he went out of his way. He said in court that he didn't so I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. He said he was a regular customer and picked up a leaflet advertising custom cakes

qwert_yuiop

saverbuyer wrote: »

He got 500 quid.

Well, if he gives it all to charity, maybe one for suicidal gay teenagers or something if it exists, fair enough. If he blows ithe whole load on cream cakes and puff pastry at Asher's, it would demonstrate an unattractive and unchristian gluttony, but might win him some friends.

motorguy

saverbuyer wrote: »

We don't know he went out of his way. He said in court that he didn't so I think we should give him the benefit of the doubt. He said he was a regular customer and picked up a leaflet advertising custom cakes

Ah right, so hes a known gay rights activist and a prominent member of the Queerspace gay rights website, but he just "happened" to ask a known christian run bakery to bake a cake with the slogan "Support Gay Marriage" and the Queerspace logo on it?

So he had an agenda there, but we should give him the benefit of the doubt because he says so in court?

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bake-a-cake-for-gay-marriage-in-northern-ireland-or-be-dragged-to-court

Bless his little cotton socks.

How unlucky was he that he just happened to ask possibly the only bakery in the entire country that had a religious objection to bake that cake, eh?

But, no, i'm sure you're right. He was just "unlucky" :eek: