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Immersiveunreality on 15 January 2019
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coolbeans said:
MrWayne said:

of course we should try to understand his fear and his religious beliefs but we should not be apologetic and say "Well that's his believe, we should respect that.". No, we should challenge such believes or else nothing will change.
The cathlic church supported anti semetism for over 1000 years and only stoped because the presure become to big.

Well...fine but said challenge shouldn't come at the behest of the government.  Which is why you see a defense for the baker in this specific context.  There's a conflict at play here in regards to said baker (or photographer, painter, etc.) being compelled to use their artistic expression in some capacity for something they find objectionable to their sincerely-held beliefs.  And since we have a free market there's already a much simpler response: "If that's the hill you want to die on, you won't receive any of my money."

EDIT: Or go outright further and ostracize these kinds of business partners from your personal life.  There's no unethical use of force via the gov't, no waste of resources from attention-seeking couples going lawsuit-shopping, and everything's clean and tidy as a result.  

Thanks for this comment, i fully agree.