The Northern Ireland Equality Commission faces ‘serious questions’ after it spent £251,000 of public money backing a gay activist who brought legal action against Christian bakers, the region’s First Minister said – as he claimed the case ‘should never have been brought to court in the first place’.
We lesser mortals have been saying this all along. This whole farrago is the result of a nasty, spiteful activist who hadn’t the good grace to simply take his custom elsewhere. Frankly, he should be handed the bill for this unnecessary action.
Quite agree LR. A very unpleasant individual. My sympathy was always with the Christian bakers.
One of the fundamental principles of providing a service or goods to the public is the right to decline. I have done so on occasion for the sake of my own sanity and doubtless will again. In fact, I can see one looming on the horizon. Not that the potential client is a bad person, but our personalities clash, such that I can’t bear to be near him, so providing advanced riding tuition will be better served by someone else and I absolutely reserve the right to decline to provide it myself.
So glad that the bakers won – it will possibly deter other activists from expecting their values to trump those of other people. Wonder what happened to the B&B owners who declined to provide a double room to a same-sex couple and were being prosecuted?
“Such that I can’t bear to be near him”
You’ll love this (if it’s actually genuine):
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Christ almighty.
Were the customers not asking the baker to contravene copyright law?
It used to be follow the money, now it’s follow the infantilization.
This is the well from which the all the wilful viciousness, spite, petulance arrogance and inadequacy of “activists” flows.
“This is the well from which the all the wilful viciousness, spite, petulance arrogance and inadequacy of “activists” flows.”
That pretty much hits the nail on the head. Having said that, I don’t have much time for people who use religion to excuse their bigotry either. On balance I side with the bakers but I wouldn’t do business with them.