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No, I would not - because I find the argument refusing to create wedding cakes for same-sex couples due to “sincerely held religious beliefs” spurious.Show of hands, please:How many of you have heard of any wedding-related business (bakery/florist/photographer/venue/etc.) applying Biblical standards to opposite-sex couples?No hands, right?Allow me to explain why I asked:The Bible says there are only two acceptable reasons for divorce; if one’s spouse commits adultery (Matthew 5:32), or if one is married to a non-believer and the non-believer asks for a divorce (1 Corinthians 7:15).Adultery is a death penalty crime in the Bible.According to the Bible, the act of remarrying after divorce, unless one divorced for one of the two Bible-approved reasons, above, is likewise considered adultery:“A person who gets a divorce for a reason other than the reasons listed above, and then gets remarried has committed adultery (Luke 16:18). “[1][1][1][1]Therefore, any wedding-related business providing goods and/or services to any opposite-sex couple if one or both is remarrying after divorce for any reason other than their previous spouse committing adultery, or their previous spouse being a non-believer who asked for the divorce, is participating in the act of adultery.Any business which provides goods and/or services for weddings derives a substantial, if not the majority, of its income from weddings. And the majority of weddings it is asked to serve are for opposite-sex, not same-sex, couples.“As of 1995, depending on individual and contextual factors, up to 50% of couples in the USA ended their first marriage in divorce or permanent separation.”[2][2][2][2]“The majority of people who have divorced (close to 80%) go on to marry again.”[3][3][3][3]From these statistics, we can surmise a large percentage of those opposite-sex couples seeking goods and services for their weddings have been previously divorced, and are planning a second, third, or more - wedding.If those businesses who refuse to provide wedding-related goods and services to gay couples have a moral objection to doing so due to their “sincerely held religious beliefs”, why do they not object to participating in the act of adultery when agreeing to provide those goods and services to opposite-sex couples who were previously divorced for reasons other than those sanctioned by the Bible?You may ask - how would these businesses know a couple was remarrying after a divorce, or whether their previous divorce(s) was for a reason acceptable to their faith?If one is sincerely interested in following the tenets of their faith, there are ways to obtain the information (and no, it wouldn’t require giving out a questionnaire).So why don’t wedding-related businesses do this?They don’t, because refusing opposite-sex couples based on the Biblical rules for divorce and remarriage would bankrupt their business.This proves their bottom line is of a higher priority than their faith, and they’re just using their faith as a convenient excuse to discriminate.Footnotes[1] Is remarriage after divorce always adultery?[1] Is remarriage after divorce always adultery?[1] Is remarriage after divorce always adultery?[1] Is remarriage after divorce always adultery?[2] Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States.[2] Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States.[2] Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States.[2] Cohabitation, marriage, divorce, and remarriage in the United States.[3] Remarriage - Wikipedia[3] Remarriage - Wikipedia[3] Remarriage - Wikipedia[3] Remarriage - Wikipedia