This is why your gun is not like a wedding cake.
SOOO we cannot discriminate against LGBTQ Americans when they legally participate in commerce.
The public square is supposed to be agnostic and treat everyone the same. We all pay taxes in to build and maintain the public square, so we should all be able to participate in a public square that only exists as the result of our collective taxation. Same goes for government services (like issuing marriage licenses).
To ensure that this is done without prejudice, we, as a society, decided to protect certain classes of Americans who have historically faced routine discrimination for characteristics that they have no control over and cannot change. Those characteristics are: race, ethnicity, gender identity, disability, and sexual orientation (owning an object or belonging to a non-religious organization does not meet those criterion).
So yes, you have to bake the gay wedding cake, because if you refuse to bake *that* cake but you have no problem baking:
- a baby shower cake for a woman having a baby out of wedlock
- a wedding cake for a straight couple living together before marriage
- a cake for a divorcee on their second or third set of vows, etc.
…then you are cherry-picking *which* sins you are willing to ‘violate your religion' for. You are literally ignoring the multiple and varied types of heterosexual sin and deciding to discriminate *only* against what you consider to be 'homosexual sin'.
And our constitution does not allow that.