Would Jesus Bake A Cake For A Gay Wedding?)

After hearing of the Supreme Courtroom's ruling the other day to uphold a Colorado baker's decision to turn down to broil cakes for gay marriages, citing religious freedom, I decided to thumb through the Bible to the gospel affiliate on gay cakes.

I could swear I'd put a bookmark at that place, but to my absolute stupor I didn't notice a single world on gay anything . Jesus didn't spend a second in his three-year ministry discussing gay marriage, gay sexual activity, gay inclinations; he didn't condemn the bi-curious. He did not say, non i time, 1000 shalt not notice that you might be a woman trapped in a man'south body, and if — Thousand-d forbid — you lot exercise, for M-d's sake don't say anything to everyone.

You have to wonder what Jesus, the purported founder of Christianity, was getting upwards to all that time if it wasn't refusing to make cakes for happy newlyweds. How could he limited his love for God? Was he attending abortion rallies? I sifted through the pages and remembered what it was: He just spent a shit-ton of fourth dimension talking most honey.

Love this and love that. Honey your neighbor. Stop judging everybody. That sort of affair.

Here are a few examples:

And then we know and rely on the love God has for u.s.a.. God is love. Whoever lives in dear lives in God, and God in them. —ane John four:sixteen:

My command is this: Love each other equally I take loved you. —John 15:12

Guess not, that you exist non judged. For with the judgment y'all pronounce you volition be judged, and with the measure you use it will exist measured to you. —Matthew vii:1-2

Jesus' principal message seemed to be lightening folks upwards and easing them beyond superficial, legalistic interpretations. He stopped the angry townspeople from stoning the proverbial cheatin' woman in John 8:vii by inviting anyone who had never sinned to throw the commencement rock. They were trying to pin him downwardly on legalities, much as this baker got the Supreme Court to practice, and he sidestepped it with a moral truth so true even those itching to hurl their rocks had to put them downward.

Here is another truth. The baker in question, Jack Phillips, may mean well. He said that he would as well non bake a cake condemning the LGBTQ community. (Although, one wonders, are they in demand?) Simply if you lot are an engaged couple looking for a bakery to play an integral part in sanctifying your happiness, and the baker says, substantially, "Ew, no. Considering I am a Christian, which was founded on Jesus' teachings, though Jesus never mentioned either gayness or cakes, I tin can't participate in that business," what touch do yous think it has? When you juxtapose the legalization and consummation of homosexuality against those who oppose it, even by refusing something as elementary as a cake, just a few buttercream rainbows topped by ii tuxedoed plastic grooms, where is the damage?

Well, the gay couple in question, David Mullins and Charlie Craig, who first asked the baker to make the cake in 2012, didn't crusade whatsoever harm. Maybe ordinary harm, similar peradventure 1 of them cut somebody off in traffic ane mean solar day or failed to smile at a grumpy cashier. Simply for all intents and purposes they were just two people who wanted to build a life together, and there is no observable harm in that. People do it every day. Just the minute the bakery refused on religious grounds to broil them a cake, all style of harm was done.

Hither is what I mean. Say you go to go a block and yous're not gay, but for some reason the baker says he can't broil yous a cake because his faith doesn't approve of your wedlock, implying God doesn't approve of it, implying God either doesn't approve of you lot (though, like Jeremiah, he knitted yous in the womb as surely as the baker), or God fabricated you lot who y'all were for the sole purpose of living a lonely, sexless life of shame and longing. That would probably injure your feelings, rather deeply if you've been told yous're unacceptable your whole life, and after that it would piss y'all off. It's a subtle manner of stoning, whether the bakery wants to admit information technology or non.

It's also got nothing in the world to do with Jesus, who was far more intimate with those ostracized by society than he was with the rich and powerful. Jesus supposedly hung out with thieves, tax collectors and prostitutes. Odds are, some of them were gay.

Everything written about Jesus implies that if the Davids and Charlies of the world approached him asking for a rainbow-themed wedding cake, Jesus would say, "I don't broil, man, merely permit me wash your feet. And anyone who wants to cast the kickoff stone toward my friends here ought to consider their own sins outset."

So in that location would be abundant wine-drinking. I'g not sure. Only it seems well-nigh correct, considering what I've read of gospels so far.