"Your religion does not prohibit me from anything. It prohibits you."

[Pacifist Patriot]

54. No. And here's how I get to that.

If you believe your religion forbids sexual relations with someone of the same sex, that prohibits you from engaging in homosexual acts. Baking a cake for someone who engages in an act you find sinful or proscribed does not in any way equate to having engaged in the prohibited act yourself.

Of course that doesn't stop the religiously indoctrinated from believing they should take it several steps further and shun those they think are violating this religious law, i.e. the bigotry and refusal of service because of a misguided notion that doing your damn job "promotes the sin."

But this is ridiculous because according to Christianity, everyone is a sinner. So baking a cake for literally anyone would "promote the sin." The baker just doesn't know which sins they are promoting for any given customer. Should they refuse to bake cakes for people who tell lies? Where does it end?

For me, it all goes back to "get a life," stop fixating on what your neighbor is doing, focus on yourself, and be a kind person. Someone who can't do that is simply not a good person to me regardless of whether they are religious or not.

This is why people who refuse to serve LGBTQ+ people or fill prescriptions for women can eff right on off. They are being utterly hypocritical. Let those without sin cast the first stone.