Advertising company forced (?) to remove Greg Laurie's billboards.

[Tassman]

We went over that already. It is a symbol of a marriage. It conveys the celebration of two people getting married. If it is for a gay wedding it would be celebrating a sin and an invalid marriage. Just like if it were made for some other type of wedding that YOU yourself would (probably) consider immoral: like an incestuous marriage.

It's a cake, just a cake for the celebration of a legal marriage, regardless of whether that marriage is between a gay couple or an interracial couple or any other sort of legal marriage that a Christian baker might oppose on religious grounds. The baker doesn't have to celebrate the marriage, he just has to bake a cake and keep his mouth shut.

[Roy]

Exactly. It conveys marriage. It conveys nothing at all about same-sex marriage, and definitely does not convey the message that same-sex marriage is acceptable. Making/selling that cake does not indicate an acceptance of gay marriage.

It most certainly does convey what type of marriage.

Then you should be able to tell us what type of marriage that cake conveys.

A swastika can be a benign Native American symbol or it can be the symbol of the Nazis. Same design, different meaning depending on the context.

And you're back to talking about design/decoration again, which you've already admitted is irrelevant.

[Roy]

The difference that exists kills your point. In the former case, the billboard is the medium which carries the message, while in the latter cake IS the message.

What is the message here?
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[Sparko]

It's a cake, just a cake for the celebration of a legal marriage, regardless of whether that marriage is between a gay couple or an interracial couple or any other sort of legal marriage that a Christian baker might oppose on religious grounds. The baker doesn't have to celebrate the marriage, he just has to bake a cake and keep his mouth shut.

Cakes are traditional symbols of celebrating events. Even you should know that.

[Sparko]

What is the message here?
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And we are back to you simply repeating yourself.

See here: http://www.theologyweb.com/campus/sh...l=1#post568371

[Roy]

And we are back to you simply repeating yourself.

I'm asking a different person.

[Sparko]

I'm asking a different person.

You asked me again in the post just previous to that.

Then you should be able to tell us what type of marriage that cake conveys.

[NorrinRadd]

What is the message here?
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No more pearls for you.

[Tassman]

Cakes are traditional symbols of celebrating events. Even you should know that.

Certainly they are. For those doing the celebrating such as the happy couple and friends, not the professional artisans and helpers. The cake-maker is no more "celebrating the event" than the hiring company erecting the marquee in the back garden.