A cake to celebrate the union of a loving couple as the mark of the beast? If you say so.
First of all, God does not celebrate a sin He calls an abomination in scripture, no matter how much people insist it's "love". Second, Revelation 13 more than adequately describes the very thing you advocate: no one can make a living or buy or sell unless they think and act in accordance with evil… and CELEBRATE IT.
And all I thought was I was arguing for is that if you say you provide a service, then you should stay true to your word.
No one should be forced to provide a service for a behavior, a lifestyle or politics that are an affront to their principles, faith and religion. Should a bakery be forced to make a cake that celebrates an orgy? An abortion? A divorce? Because that is exactly what you are advocating - imposing the very measure of the word
tyranny.
And I will forever refuse to comply with such demands.
If you say so. Again, it's a cake - the very cake you advertise to provide.
None of these businesses being prosecuted and sued out of business, advertise homosexual wedding services. There are myriad THOUSANDS that DO advertise such services. These business are being targeted precisely BECAUSE they are Christian, because the agenda is to create a climate of fear and intimidation if one does not submit to homosexual demands for acknowledgement and celebration.
Calm down. I don't know any members of the "gay mafia".
You act like them.
But I do know friends, relatives and colleagues who have been in committed relationships, true to each other, for longer than you've likely been married to your spouse.
I don't care. You could try and convince us that some guy who married his 8 year old cousin and has been in a 'committed relationship with her' for years, should be acknowledged with a cake and we will still tell you we will not use our skills or talents to acknowledge such behavior as a good and acceptable practice. As an Artist I've probably known a lot more homosexuals than you do. It doesn't make their behavior any more acceptable to God or to me, and I will no more acknowledge their bastardization of matrimony than I do calling infanticide a 'choice'.
Yes, I know - God blesses your relationship, and condemns theirs.
Take it up with Him at the Judgement. He is the one who designed Marriage and frankly doesn't give two-whits about the justifications people give for engaging in abominations.
But forgive me for sticking up for my friends, and their right to be treated fairly and with dignity and respect. Even by Christians.
And you need to put a gun to our heads and use the government and the courts to force us to comply with celebrating evil because you deem it to be a good. You are the very definition of a tyrant, and it is people like you I will resist with every fiber of my being.
If what I contribute is "beyond stupid and silly", then I'll just say Merry Christmas and be gone.
If only you would.
