Have Your Straight Cake if You Want to Eat it Too

I recently stumbled across an article on Fox News website that critiqued an incident in Texas where a gay couple is taking legal actions against a bakery that refused to make a wedding cake for them because of their sexuality. Todd Starnes who is an American conservative journalist wrote this article in what can be seen as a very bias way to attract not only other "God loving Americans," but also to obviously attract attention. Todd Starnes is a strict conservative that has landed jobs with Baptist Press, Chattanooga Times Free Press, and even Fox News. He was however fired from his position with Baptist Press after misquoting an Education Secretary in a controversial article. He has also published a few books and has a large Republican, right wing, and Christian following. His Article speaks on how a small town Christian owned Bakery declined wedding cakes to Ben Valencia and Luis Marmolejo for their same sex wedding. The owners of the bakery, Edie and David Delorme, claim that when the couple came in they politely declined to making them a cake because it would "conflict with our spiritual convictions." Since this is legally prejudice in our country, the couple seeked a legal team and made their experience public through news crews. Since then the Delormes not only have had to also lawyer up, but their business is declining and they have been receiving threats. Its obvious that the writer Todd Starnes is in agreement with the bakery owners by the way he conducts this article. He doesn't bother interviewing the gay couple in this legal battle. Instead he takes a statement that the couple says and states that the couple wants the owners to "violate their beliefs." The word violate was not actually used by the couple. Starnes then claims that the owners needed legal counseling because many Christian owned businesses are being "targeted by LGBT activist." In almost an ironic and comical twist the owners claim that they just "want equal rights," and to "be treated equally." I found it crazy that someone can claim that, after themselves not allowing another group to be treated equally. In even more comical fashion Starnes stands up with his American flag cape and ask " Shouldn’t Christian Americans have the same rights and privileges as LGBT Americans?" My mind is officially blown. It can be first assumed that my post on this is in itself biased since I obviously support the LGBT community, but its so much more than that. For devoted Christian business owners to ask to be treated with equal rights of their views, but deny service to other Americans for their beliefs and who they are is just a reminder on how backwards Americans can think. There was once a time when a person of color couldn't enter certain bakeries because it was against the owners beliefs or values to serve them. This is America people! You know, the place where you right winged conservatives love to boast about the land of the free! Yet then turn around and discriminate against those who are different from you. I am a Christian, and I don't know how of all the main points in almost any religion that point out be a good person and treat others the way you want to be treated, religious nuts have somehow molded that into "hey I can push you away if your not just like me because Jesus says so." It is all so backwards. This couple has a huge legal leg to stand on, and I hope they get the justice that they seek. However, that is what is wrong with our government today, we claim one thing, but then flip it to what pleases us religiously. Starnes claim is that and all faith based business should have the right to do this. I argue that this can open the door to discriminating against almost anyone. In the end if we can all just learn to respect one another even if we don't agree with their beliefs, then we can all strive. That idea is basically laid out in the constitution. If we can learn to separate religion from law or business, then life as we know it would be a piece of cake.