I like to think that since I am a guy who is attracted to other guys and have been dealing with this issue for most of my life, that I have a different perspective than the average evangelical Christian. I have addressed this issue before when I was still "in the closet" about my struggles.
1) This was not really a victory for religious liberty and freedoms. To echo the conservative genius Matt Walsh: This was a victory for Jack Phillips. Nothing was decided for future similar cases....just this one. And thankfully, right won for once,
2) Mr. Phillips does not just refuse to do gay wedding cakes. He also will not do Halloween cakes, lewd bachelor party cakes, and divorce cakes. Should he be sued for not doing those also?
3) The liberal media is making it out that he (and others like him) will not serve gay people. Not true. He has no issue with gay customers, just gay weddings.
4) Jesus would not bake the cake. Liberals and liberal Christians alike love to throw that out there. I believe they are 100% wrong. Here's the thing: sex between 2 people of the same gender is sin. The Bible says so. Jesus suffered and died for the sins of the world, and is far more grieved by sin and sinners bound for hell than we ever could be. There is no way Jesus would do anything to show his approval of a wedding built on sin.
Yes, He would love gay people - He does - and Christians would do well to do so also - but there is a difference in loving someone and helping to rejoice in their sins.
5) This will go over like a lead balloon: Anyone who is OK with Trump's vulgarity, strip clubs, serial adultery, bragging about grabbing women by the ***, etc..... has no right to moral outrage about gay things.
Now I know a lot of people voted for Trump because they didn't want Hillary. I get that. I'm not talking about those people. I am talking about those who defend him when these things are brought up and are not at all bothered by them. Those people have no right to moral outage about anything. You cannot wink at and/or defend Trump's sins, then turn around and be outraged about gay marriage and homosexuality.
6) What kind of idiot wants a person involved in their wedding in any way who does not want to bake a cake, etc? This is their special day.....wouldn't any normal sane person want to use people who supported such occasion...like a gay baker, gay photographer, etc?
Which brings me to my next point:
7) I firmly believe these incidents have been intentional. The gay people involved intentionally sought out Christians to either force them to comply with them, or ruin them if they refused.
Not all gay people care. Many just want to be left alone, and don't even care about gay marriage, cakes, etc. But there is a segment of the gay community who will not be happy until every Christian complies with the gay agenda and is silenced about what they believe. THOSE are the people behind these cases.
8) If a Christian can be forced to bake a gay wedding cake, print gay pride t-shirts, etc....... then gay people can be forced to do services with pro-traditional marriage messages, etc. Some gay people get that. When a Christian t-shirt company owner was being sued for refusing to print gay pride t-shirts, a gay woman who owned a t-shirt company voiced the same idea that she could be forced to print t-shirts with a Christian message she disagreed with.
9) In some Muslim countries, adult men can marry little girls. Would the same people insist Jesus would bake a cake for THAT wedding? What about places - possibly here some day - where pedophilia is legal? What if an adult male marries a little boy? What if a man wants to marry his sister, his mom....his dad....... his dog? Are they going to be exclusive on gay weddings, or will they be consistent?
10) Should gay rights trump Christian's rights and religious freedoms and liberty?
11) If we cave on this issue, how long until ministers are being sued for not conducting a gay wedding? It has already happened in England.
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