For profit business or a church?

"It is not a verdict based on morality or religion. It is based on law. The bakery owners have the right to practice their religion, to attend religious practices of their choosing, and speak their mind on whatever their religious opinions are. But they and their customers were not in church, they were in a profit-making bakery that exists to provide cake for cash. They failed in that task and they are being held accountable under the law." Kerry Anne - Addicting Info.com(http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/05/19/court-denies-bakery-right-to-refuse-to-serve-gay-people-christian-conservatives-freak-out-images/)

'The defendants are not a religious organization. They are a business for profit. There are no exceptions available." - District Judge Isobel Brownlie  Northern Ireland Judge.

"They are in a business supplying services to all. The law requires them to do just that," said Judge Brownlie.

Bakeries are making the news all over the place. The owners of the bakery in Oregon still refuse to believe that they were doing anything wrong. This bakery in Belfast Ireland follows suit claiming that decorating a cake in a certain way violates their religious beliefs. One thing that I have noticed is that over and over again in many wedding videos. I have heard that bakers want to sit down with the bride and groom to get to know them to make a cake that will honor their marriage. Doing so allows them to participate in a small way. While it is a romantic ideal, the baker forgets that this is a business contract. They are not actually a part of the wedding aside from product bought in their store. A cold assessment but nevertheless a true one.

Christians want the right to discriminate against anything that they feel uncomfortable with outside of their little lives. This discrimination just doesn't apply to the LGBT community. A person could come up into their shop with a motorcycle leather jacket and be perceived as a Hell's Angel member. Ooooohhh this person could be a devil worshipper.

The ministry of Christ was to reach out to the people who lived on the edges of polite society. He sat, ate and drank with prostitutes, tax collectors, the un-educated, the sick and fishermen. He didn't condemn them for their decisions. He recognized the decisions, but didn't judge them for it. Jesus' reaction was so now that you know, you can choose another path. You can choose another direction. No one is tied to the past if they choose to break from it.

Hate the sin, but not the sinner. Nice words but here in this country and others like Uganda. Hate the sin because of the sin is standard. When I have done my reading and cross reading. Love between people of the same sex was never discouraged. Yet where the sin happened is somewhere in the sexual expression of that love, and, when that sexual expression is done in the name of another god. This is my opinion, and, what has been revealed to me in my walk of faith.

So this becomes another part of the culture of fear that is so prevalent in this country. This country that wants to be so proud of its diversity, hates, Hates, HATES, anything that is perceived as different. The story of Jonathan and David is in the bible for a reason. It is danced around so much that it is forgotten when any of the arguments come up. Yet it is said that their love for each other surpassed the love of a man and a woman. One felt when the other was hurt. Hmmmm sounds like love to me. 

So I am a gay man. Very happy to be a gay man. I grew up Roman Catholic. I left the Catholic Church and became a "Born-Again" believe. From there, I moved on to being Pentecostal, to Evangelical, to nothing, on to now someone who is looking for the truth and searching more than just the bible. The "pagans" have many things that are right. So do the Muslims, Hindus, Buddhist and the many other religions of the world. There are certain bedrock truths that they all stand upon. There is more out there. I believe that it is my duty to find out.

Refusing to bake and decorate a cake is childish. If as a business you want to refuse service. Refuse service at the absolute beginning. Do not take a deposit. If you are a church, then you can stand on moral ground. If you are a business, then give to Caesar what is Caesar's.