A newspaper posed this question and got exactly the responses it deserved
Time now to go to the Chicago Tribune, which felt compelled to ask this question on Twitter.
Should a religious baker have to create a cake for a same-sex wedding? Imagine a Jewish baker being required to put a swastika on a cake. https://t.co/v9nnD7Vyye pic.twitter.com/fXuJbcmFXW
— Chicago Tribune Opinion (@chitribopinions) December 7, 2017
It followed the case of a Colorado baker who declined to make a custom wedding cake for a gay couple on the basis of his religious beliefs. The couple subsequently sued for discrimination and won.
The paper’s editorial, headlined ‘Wedding Cakes and Conscience’ said the baker was “in dwindling company in objecting to gay marriage. But it’s not too much to ask that he be granted the freedom not to play a part in it.”
“To be forced to create a cake for a same-sex wedding is a similar burden … Imagine a Jewish baker being required to put a swastika on a cake.”
Hmmm. Here’s what they made of it on Twitter.
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— Nunzio Vuono (@nvuono) December 7, 2017
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Congrats on plucking the most asinine line to represent this editorial on a website that is loaded with opinions on marriage equality and plagued by literal Nazis
— Brandon Wall (@Walldo) December 7, 2017
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actually I can’t and won’t imagine that you could possibly be saying that the most prominent symbol of genocide is equivalent to the image of two women in love
— XO XO GARAMOND GURL (@sallyjayjohnson) December 7, 2017
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So true. Imagine that poor baker having to think of (extremely whisper voice) *same-sex couples* as real people who are capable of love and dedicated partnership. TOTALLY the same thing as invoking genocide. Totes…
(Vomits profusely at humanity’s capacity for causal hate.)
— Wythe Marschall (@hollowearths) December 8, 2017
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Your equating two people who love each other and the holocaust speaks volumes about you.
— David Rocklin (@drocklin) December 7, 2017