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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

Baker takes order for BIRTHDAY cake.

Baker than looks up client's facebook page, and finds that she is in a same-sex marriage.

Baker then texts her canceling the cake order, citing a refusal of services to same-sex couples.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ohio-bakery-gay-couple-cake_us_577eb60ae4b01edea78d1e2a

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and you STILL keep trying to get me to talk to you

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ORIGINAL: Greta75

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ORIGINAL: Lookin4Lace

Alot of people dont know alot about the oriental, asian lifestyle or dare i say enough about it, she is right when she speaks of this lifestyle being kept private, she has alot riding on her anonymity, basically put she cannot ever bring disgrace to herself or her family name

Yea, in Asian culture. No matter what. Your actions reflect on your parent's upbringing. If only the only blame is yourself, then no problem. But in Asia, the shame is your entire family's. So I want to make sure the consequences of my actions are always my own and only my own and does not affect my family. The culture is different because we are always taught to sacrifice our self-interest or personal wants and needs, and always make decisions based on how will this affect your family. Family interests comes first always. Also why many Asians don't really take risks.

I mean, it's very normal for example, I asked my friend, why does he not ride a motorbike even though he really really wants to. He said, he is the only son of his family, he respects his parents wishes that he should never participate in any activity that could risk his own life in danger. So alot of things, he cannot do. It's a form of respect. I am a little more disrespectful, but I am very discreet and private. I refuse to even socialise with local bdsm community or join munches because I trust nobody. It will be seriously something my family cannot recover from, I think my dad might even commit suicide from shame.

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ORIGINAL: ThatDizzyChick

And again! He just can't resist the urge, he must be fascinated by the very idea of me. Must be jealous that I get more dick than him.

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ORIGINAL: Lookin4Lace
but the presumption i have is that YES a female can bring shame to a household but in general they hold very little to no power unless publically ordained or have shown to be a great provider otherwise they are normally seen as the lessor as opposed to a male that automatically is ordained as a title holderand raised as such from birth.

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ORIGINAL: bounty44

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

Baker takes order for BIRTHDAY cake.

Baker than looks up client's facebook page, and finds that she is in a same-sex marriage.

Baker then texts her canceling the cake order, citing a refusal of services to same-sex couples.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ohio-bakery-gay-couple-cake_us_577eb60ae4b01edea78d1e2a

I think this is a good example of the world gone mad.

It shouldn't really be unthinkable that there will be some people in this world who don't want to serve other people because they're different in some way.

But, I think it's a sign of our times that some people need to find a cause in something. Most people in the Western world are comfortable, and probably bored in the sense that such a world doesn't offer them much in the way of political causes - and so they find one that isn't really there.

The argument goes that refusing someone in a shop is only the start. But, is it? It's not state sanctioned and there are other shops to buy cakes.

You won't find a world where everyone is agreeable. Surely refusing to bake a cake for someone is hardly plumbing the depths of genocide?

greg gutfeld recently said something very similar and is in part attributing what you've described to our life of luxury. he suggested that an immigrant from Rwanda for instance would find the things we seemingly get upset about, mind boggling.

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ORIGINAL: Wayward5oul

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1
But, I think it's a sign of our times that some people need to find a cause in something. Most people in the Western world are comfortable, and probably bored in the sense that such a world doesn't offer them much in the way of political causes - and so they find one that isn't really there.

You make it sound like the woman went out looking for a cause. She didn't. She went about her daily business, ordered a cake for her wife's birthday, and left the bakery believing all was well.

The bakery owner then, for reasons that are not given in the article, chose to look up the client on the internet and discovered that she was married to a woman.

The owner then contacted her and refused service.

At which point the client went and ordered a cake at another bakery.

In this day and age, there is no way that this kind of story is not going to make the news. But no one went out needing to "find a cause". They were mistreated, with zero provocation.

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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent1
Bounty,

From talking to muslim taxi drivers they can't believe what we do to 'appease' other cultures.

It's not them driving these agendas, it's our home-grown left-wing types who are so fuckin' bored with their lives they create a cause where there isn't one.