Verv wrote:If I were to make a request that someone were to bake a cake that they found offensive as a custom order for an extreme political viewpoint of my own, would they have to comply with that, because if they weren't they would be violating my rights and directly hurting me?
Baloney. We're not talking about someone with a violent ideology who wants to harm you, and someone like that would likely not go to you for business in the first place.. You're talking about someone that would cause you harm. I am not talking about that.
A person's sexual orientation, skin colour, etc. do nothing to harm you, in any way. You are free to have your beliefs, but when you discriminate against others based on that belief, then you are harming someone else.
Your freedom of religion is not harmed by serving homosexuals cakes. You can search the Bible all year and not find anywhere where it says to treat sinners badly. In fact, Jesus actively promoted the opposite.
Liberty is great, until it limits the liberties of another person. You condone it, but can't seem to see the harm it can do to a society if everyone were to suddenly be able to serve only the people they preferred.
Freedom of religion is not freedom to inflict your religion upon others. It's freedom to practice your religion, within the confines of society. Discrimination harms society, as a whole, so that's where your freedom ends.
“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson