[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I have to disagree, discrimination should have no place in a business, a cake shop is one thing but if you say it's ok to discriminate you're setting a terrible precedent imo. You could end up having creches refusing to take the children of single parents or mixed race children etc etc

I mean realistically speaking, if a customer knew that a particular cake shop was prejudiced against them for some reason they probably wouldn't use them anyway because they probably wouldn't trust them with something like their wedding cake

I would'nt compare this to a creche or something of that nature.
This is a product that is being offered.You would'nt dictate to a clothes company what they have to make and offer for sale,That is up to the designers to make and offer and hope that their product sells.If people don't like that product then they find a brand that they prefer.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

I would'nt compare this to a creche or something of that nature.
This is a product that is being offered.You would'nt dictate to a clothes company what they have to make and offer for sale,That is up to the designers to make and offer and hope that their product sells.If people don't like that product then they find a brand that they prefer.

They offer and make wedding cakes though

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

They offer and make wedding cakes though

They don't offer and make cakes which say 'support gay marriage' though.
Find another cake shop.Imo.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by EyeballPaul

They don't offer and make cakes which say 'support gay marriage' though.
Find another cake shop.Imo.

What if it was just their wedding cake, a normal wedding cake like any straight couples except it was for a gay couple?

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

What if it was just their wedding cake, a normal wedding cake like any straight couples except it was for a gay couple?

If that was the case then i'm sure this issue would'nt have arisen in the first place.The cake maker would have made a generic wedding cake,The gays would've bought it and happy days.

[Crimson Dynamo]

The first chap is the baker and the next is the "gay"

They would make a nice couple

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Judge Brownlie said: "It is not a straightforward area of the law.

"Obviously this is a case in which I propose to reserve my judgement."

It is understood the verdict in the landmark case will be heard on Thursday May 7.

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