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Christians here's a scenario: You're the owner of a bakery and....?

1. A gay couple comes in and wants to buy a wedding cake. Do you serve them?

2. An atheist couple comes in and wants to buy a wedding cake. Do you serve them? (You know they're atheists because you overhear them talk about not wanting a pastor/clergymember to wed them and how they don't want a church wedding and how you don't want their vows to be based on god. They're talking as they're waiting in line.)

3. A mom and daughter come in and the daughter is clearly arguing with her mom and showing her no respect. The daughter is a brat and seems spoiled. The mom came with the daughter because she is paying for her wedding cake and her fiance is at work. Do you serve the daughter even though she is breaking the 5th commandment?

4. A Muslim comes in and wants a cake, do you serve them? The Muslim is breaking commandment #1.

5. A nice couple walks through the door and the girl twists her ankle because she's trying to break in her wedding heels and she says "Jesus Christ, ****!" as she almost falls down. Do you serve them? Even though she's breaking the 3rd commandment?

Just wondering...

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  • Ray J
    Lv 7
    6 years ago
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    Anyone with even a tiny shred of decency and morals would say yes to every single one of your scenarios.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    How is Commandment #1 broken per serving Muslim, unless the Muslim would be whom I'd worship?

    Anyway, in general, I personally would serve all on your list, may likely demonstrate my humanity by butting in when I would feel like doing so, and, I actually usually do, still, end up serving even rude customers.

    A better example would be, a true story, a busdriver one time refused admittance to an individual who was drunk, and inconsiderate. These situations are very touchy, as it boils down to the discretion of the busdriver how to deal with such type of "undesirables" who aren't actual threat per se, just, are not "proper" in their conduct, demeanor, condition, etc...

    Again back to your hypothetical list - I would approach such situation from a higher moral ground, where my response would be far superior (in terms of civility and such) to the customer's attitude. And in the case of atheists or members of other faiths, again, I would make, if nothing else, the assumption that "life is a learning process, who am I to judge when one shall be ready to convert to the Truth. I bake cookies, God converts hearts" :)

  • 6 years ago

    To be honest, I think that we should give all bigots the right to refuse service for any made up reason they want, and let the invisible hand of the market sort them out. Businesses will have the right to discriminate, and customers will have the right to boycott, it will all even out, and the government doesn't need to interfere...

    Like, maybe if an airplane company starts discriminating against babies, I totally might support it, eh.

  • ?
    Lv 5
    6 years ago

    No chance without Jesus:

    First of all, "atheist" isn't capitalized - only by religious people who it scares and who are confused by it.

    Second of all, being atheist isn't a choice, in fact, it's the exact opposite. It's people who don't make the choice to accept the theory that god zapped us into existence.

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  • 1. Yes I would.

    2. Yes. Thank you, come again.

    3. I would. But I'd politely ask the young lady to be more respectful to her mother.

    4. Here you go. Thanks, come back soon!

    5. Yep. I'd snicker a little in my head, but not out loud

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Business is business. But I'm not going to be making a giant penis cake or anything of that sort. It is not that type of cake shop.

  • Hogie
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    The answer to each question is yes.

    Your citations of old covenant commandments is irrelevant. Christians are not a legal party to the old covenant, which also ended.

  • kim
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Personally in this anything goes society, and I owned a cake store, I would sell cake period. But I do know that people are particular and the pudding is in the details there if you get my drift.

  • Tim
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    Here's a scenario for you that has actually happened.

    O J Simpson comes into a steakhouse and wants a steak.

    Do you serve him?

    http://www.bing.com/search?q=jeff+ruby+oj+simpson&...

  • Mintee
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    someone doesnt know their islam.. commandment #1 Commandment #1: "You shall have no other gods before Me." (Exodus 20:3)

    well..... muslims do not have any other gods before God.. we pray to the same exact God that Abraham, Adam, Noah, Moses, and Jesus prayed to.. (Jesus didnt pray to himself you know).. if we dont, we are NOT muslims.. its one of our cardinal rules.. that we do not associate any Gods with God and we only believe in ONE God. the God of Moses, Jesus, Noah, Abraham, Adam, and all the prophets.. so no muslimwould be breaking any commandment there..

    to answer you though.. I would bake a cake.. whatever anyone does with it is their affair.. If you work selling food in a grocery, you dont know what people do with it..

    if you work at a water plant, you dont know who drinks the water

    if you work at a chicken factory you dont know who buys the chicken..

    so be it.. what they do with it afterwards is their business, not your sin

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