It isnt about Christians and the Christian religion or Muslims or anything else. It is about the government forcing people to do things they have a problem with. The first amendment provides for the freedom of association. I assume the freedom of dissasociation is also a right although not enumerated. The government has decided that if a person is of a protected class as defined by the government they now have rights above and beyond the citizens of a non-protected class. We no longer have equal protection under the law.
A guy doesnt want to bake a cake for 2 lesbians and instead of going somewhere else they drag his ass all the way to the supreme court and we have idiots wondering what the problem is...
It is the intolerance of gays regarding the respecting of other people's religion obviously...
I don't care if someone owns a business and refuses to serve blacks, gays, whites, children, or people with an amputation.
In my view, if you own a business you should have very wide rights of refusal. If I don't want want to do something for you, the government shouldn't make me.
If a bakery owner says, "look dude, i hate fags so gtfo" im cool with that. While i dont agree with his business philosophy, as a human being, in my view it is within his right to not like homosexuals, and not take their business. Here is what I have a problem with. "I dont want to bake your cake because you are gay and I am a Christian."
Christians are correct in their belief that homosexuality is a sin. No way around it, scripture clearly labels it a sin. So what? We are all sinners and no sin is worse than another. Furthermore, the bible and Christianity commands that we love each other, and love the sinner.
So if you believe homosexuality is a sin, and you claim to be a Christian the last thing your faith would allow you to do is shun them. Are you also going to refuse to service a straight couple that lives together already before marriage? Deny your services to a person who drinks too much?
It is bigotry using religion as a mask to lend some credibility to itself.
If you don't want to serve gay people because you don't like gay people, just say so, don't bastardize christianity.