It feels like basic empathy is so uncommon in some spheres nowadays that it might be “radical”

So what you’re advocating is for everyone to get the same cake for all occasions and decorate it as they can in private? A gay couple should never be able to buy a cake with a topper, just a cake in public? Hide their shameful lifestyles? A boy shouldn’t be able to buy a strawberry pink cake because that would be unnatural

anymore than they could discriminate against people of color by denying them the same products and services they provide to white people

That just never seems to work out right, judging by historical evidence, does it? Wouldn’t it help if there were… Laws to protect from that?

I would also say if the bakery won’t put a gay topper on a cake, they can’t put a specifically straight topper on either.

How would that ever be enforced?

The point is: if you find proving a service to a gay person as deplorable as someone advocating for racial superiority or genocide, you should be forced to rethink your line of business

I’m pretty sure you choose to be a hateful spiteful Nazi. You don’t choose to be gay. There’s a HUGE difference. It is a bad faith argument to equate holding hateful views and opinions to being born different. With that reasoning, the feeling of discomfort when an owner sees a black person or an Asian person is acceptable grounds to deny services to them.

I did a lot of scripting and metrics for hardware that I used to transition yeah Lots of AWS and Python There isn’t a lot of these niche startups and yeah bigger companies look for degrees/ bigger company work exp so it’s hard to get a foot in

Used to be a data engineer for a medical device startup but I’ve been laid off - it’s been rough trying to get back into it, but I’ve only worked in Cloud/Data stuff for the past year officially. (I was a hardware person before.)