Put another way, the baker's objection was not to providing the male-male couple any cake, but to decorating a cake as they had requested

I don't really see how that affects anything. Just pretend I said "decorate" instead of "make" if you prefer (though I consider decorating a cake part of making it).

This is not sex discrimination

The SCOTUS disagrees. Please read the link I provided. My information is NOT from "Canadian news media", but straight from the Supreme Court of the United States.

but rather the freedom of a business to determine what products they will carry with extra sides of implication against freedom of religion in that the product the business chose not to offer for sale happens to conflict with the business owner's religious beliefs and freedom of

They're not mutually exclusive. Religious tenets can be discriminatory.

The Supreme Court decision you cited was in a case concerning employment law, which is not applicable to the example of a bakery declining to produce a particular custom-decorated cake.

I did not say otherwise. In fact, I specifically mentioned there were different factors in the baker case.

Just to be clear, I did not say anything about the decision in the employment case overriding the decision in the baker case.

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