Should a bakery be required to decorate a cake with an anti-LGBT message?

Irina Veliche
waitress | Haarlem, Netherlands
"If it’s a large bakery, it should have to honor the request. It’s there to serve the general public, the customer should be accommodat-ed. But if it’s a small family business, that’s a different situation. People are entitled to their own beliefs. They can turn away the customer."


William Kirkpatrick
artist | Glen Mills, PA
"Yes, tolerance is really important, for all points of view. I’m totally against hate speech but even if we hate the message, we have to give people the right to express it. But having said that, I’d never eat that cake. It would give me indigestion!"


Krystal Brackett
assistant store manager | South Philadelphia
"No. A business shouldn’t have to put hateful bullshit on their product. It’s similar to requiring a tattoo artist to put a swastika on someone. That’s totally offensive and shouldn’t be required by government."


Nicole Wiegand
store manager | South Philadelphia
"No. I’m in retail, and the customer is not always right. A bakery is within its right to decline providing that service. If they don’t want to promote bigotry, they don’t have to. Especially when their name is on the line."


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