You can’t make bad law for the sake of a cake
The Belfast ‘gay cake’ bakery owners may nurse bigoted beliefs, but they can’t be made to promote a cause that they see as offensive
The editor texted me last Tuesday. “Write about this ‘gay cake’ case,” he said. “And make it a defence of the Christian bakers.”
I texted back. “Don’t you read my columns?
“I’m a liberal! I can’t write in support of conservative Christian homophobes.”
“You are in the business of supplying newspaper columns,” he wrote back. “I want you to supply a column making an argument in support of the bakers. Following the logic ...
