Jack walked into Azucar Bakery last March and asked for two cakes, both in the shape of Bibles. That wasn’t a problem for Marjorie Silva, the bakery’s owner. It was what Jack wanted her to write on the cake: Anti-gay phrases including “God hates gays” and an image of two men holding hands, covered in a big, red “X.”

(source: No, bakeries don’t have to take orders for cakes that say ‘God Hates Gays’ – The Washington Post)

The bakery refused.  Jack sued.  Jack lost.

Go home, Jack.  You are just plain wrong on this one.  And you need to think about what makes such unwarranted hostility make sense to you.

In a spirit of healthy ecumenism, a wonderful and relevant offering from Lutheran Satire:

With a quick note that the estimable Mr. Frei takes roundhouse kicks at John Calvin and the papacy whenever he gets a chance (the point of the satire being that the closest the Westboro bigots come to a defense of their attitude is a rigid hyper-Calvinism that no serious Calvinist backs). Real Calvinists don’t think like this, either:

The full and free offer of the gospel is a grace bestowed upon all. Such grace is necessarily a manifestation of love or lovingkindness in the heart of God. And this lovingkindness is revealed to be of a character or kind that is correspondent with the grace bestowed. The grace offered is nothing less than salvation in its richness and fulness. The love or lovingkindness that lies back of that offer is not anything less; it is the will to that salvation. In other words, it is Christ in all the glory of his person and in all the perfection of his finished work whom God offers in the gospel. The loving and benevolent will that is the source of that offer and that grounds its veracity and reality is the will to the possession of Christ and the enjoyment of the salvation that resides in him.

(source: Orthodox Presbyterian Church)

We do not act out of a hateful prejudice which rejects the rights of minority peoples and seeks to exclude them from our communities. On the contrary, we affirm and rejoice in the God-created differences among the peoples of the world and we condemn prejudice as contrary to the heart of the gospel by which we live: that Jesus Christ is by His grace making of various peoples one community of love and fellowship. As His disciples we are called to judge, not by appearances, but to judge righteous judgment (John 7:24).

(source: A Summary of PCA Statements on Homosexuality)

…and then a brief reminder of what Catholics are obligated to practice:

[M]en and women who have deep-seated homosexual tendencies … must be accepted with respect, compassion, and sensitivity. Every sign of unjust discrimination in their regard should be avoided.

(source: Catechism of the Catholic Church – The sixth commandment)

And I want to applaud Eugene Volokh for having consistently noted that there are real problems with extending the logic of public-accommodation nondiscrimination beyond reason.