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Basically, we told them that we would give them anything they wanted to make the cake; however, they were unwilling to take the risk of ruining the cake, they wouldn't even let us have someone else pick up the cake from them and bring it BECAUSE IT WOULD AFFECT THEIR REPUTATION

That is an excellent story, Wagglebee, and it gives one reason a business can have to not provide a service. Marlowe gave one for lawyers the other day. They might simply not want to take a particular case or a particular kind of case.

I'll admit that I think race is a different issue. Race is my one holdout. There is something about a location that has a history of rejecting gingers, for instance, that would bother me. I wouldn't like a sign in a door that says, "No Gingers!" And the poor gingers could be living in an area where a majority feels negative toward gingers.

Where would they shop, eat, whatever?

In a big city, there'd be plenty of other businesses the gingers or their friends could shop at, and the ginger-haters would suffer in their business because of it. But in some small towns, that ginger-hating group could comprise the entire town.

But RACE is NOT a choice, a behavior, a whim. Race is among the highest order genetic typologies with zero deviation.

For a number of years I was in the high-end residential remodeling business and there were prospective clients that we would refuse to work with. Usually it was just a gut feeling that they were going to be a problem, but the few times we agreed to work with people we were wary of we wound up regretting it.

I'll admit that I think race is a different issue. Race is my one holdout. There is something about a location that has a history of rejecting gingers, for instance, that would bother me. I wouldn't like a sign in a door that says, "No Gingers!" And the poor gingers could be living in an area where a majority feels negative toward gingers.

Of course race is different, unfortunately the left wants to characterize everything as a form of racism even when it isn't.

Race is a poor analogy altogether, not only because one cannot choose his race, but also because with Jim Crow laws the issue was public accommodation: if you sell X to the public, then sell X to anyone.

Gay people have rights too. Americans sense that deeply; the moment a legislation reminds them of Jim Crow refusing people to buy a sandwich, they do not support it. Religion freedom is threatened not because a commodity, ordinarily for sale, is refused to the gays, but because the merchant is forced to associate with an event he abhors.