So here's a question that popped into my head just a while ago.
So there's been same controversy recently wherein a group of bakers declined based on their religious beliefs to sell a wedding cake to two lesbians, some have inaccurately said that the bakestore owners refuse to serve homosexual persons, but that's not true, they would have been fine to serve them doughnuts or a birthday cake or what not, just not a wedding cake because that would make them an accomplice to an act that violates their religious beliefs. Any way they were sued and fined a large amount of money (I'm not sure who got most of that money the state or the "victims" though).
I don't want to start a debate on whether bakers should be able to object or not to furnishing these weddings. I just am wondering: in some states they are legally required to sell wedding cakes to same-sex couples, but what about the toppers, most cake toppers have a bride and a groom, but presumably a same-sex wedding would use a topper with two men or two women. So if the business is legally required to sell a cake to a same-sex wedding, are they also legally required to stock up on same-sex toppers, or are they legally fine if they only carry the normal ones? I think technically if they only carried the bride and groom toppers it wouldn't really be discrimination since they would still be offering the same topper to each customer who requests a wedding cake, right? So that's treating all the customers equally, besides there aren't just religious/moral reasons for not having same-sex toppers, there are business reasons as well: they don't sell in as much volume so buying them makes less business sense. Also if anti-discrimination laws generally regulate how businesses treat customers, but I don't think they require businesses to sell (and therefore to buy) certain products (perhaps in general it would even be unconstitutional to require businesses to buy certain things, I don't think the government can force people to buy things against their will, unless it's like car insurance).
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