Why Should Your Agreement With A Cause Be The Deciding Factor On If You Write Something On A Cake?

A lawsuit in the United Kingdom recently came to a close. In 2014, a man named Gareth Lee sued Daniel and Amy McArthur because they refused to bake a cake that said “support gay marriage” on it, citing their Christian beliefs. Now, on 1/6/2022, the legal battle has ended with a European Human Rights Court siding with the McArthur’s over Lee. Albeit, it was primarily for technical reasons as opposed to a support for the idea that Christians can discriminate against homosexuals and supports of same-sex marriage.

It should be noted that Lee was not forcing the McArthur’s to signify they supported same-sex marriage in any way (which would give them the right to refuse to bake the cake, because then they’d have been asked to express an opinion they don’t actually have, which is compelled speech). All Lee asked for was a cake that contained his opinion on it, an opinion shared by the majority of people in the United Kingdom and an opinion currently written into the law of the United Kingdom.

In 1969, a radical feminist named Carol Hanisch wrote an essay that was later published under the name “The Personal Is Political,” attacking the idea that consciousness raising about the issues of women is only “personal” issues and not “political” ones. It should be…