I think I'd side with the cake shop on this one. Would the same principle require me to make a cake praising neo-Nazis if a customer ordered it? Another thread active now, discusses the idea of the wrath of God, an idea that is very distasteful to me. If a customer wanted it, would I be required to decorate a cake extolling the wrath of God? Or would an atheist be required to decorate a cake with religious images if the customer wanted it? Or must a wedding singer sing a song he hates at a wedding? I think the business owner should be able to politely say, "No, I don't want to do that."

I thought that was supposed to be one of the benefits of owning my own business - if I don't want to do a job, I don't think that that I, if I were a self-employed person, should have to do it I don't want to. And the customer has the right not to do business with me.

-Joe-