I don't get my cakes from politicians and neither expect to get politics from my baker.

Thank you everyone, your answers are much appreciated!

Now as Foxy said, if someone hated me then I should be concerned about the ingredients, not only the physical ingredients but also the emotional poison that comes with the cake, even if it cannot be seen or chemically analysed.

My question was obviously raised at this time as a result of the current SSM saga, but it was not my intention to restrict it to SSM issues.

So please allow me to refine my question:

Say the baker does not hate you, or at least he didn't hate you until you asked for that cake.

However, the need to bake you a cake placed him between a rock and a hard place: in order to bake the cake he would need to defy God (at least according to his understanding, let's not get here into yet another discussion about God's existence) and/or his spiritual principles and/or his conscience and/or break his vows - but if he failed to bake the cake, then he would get in trouble with the secular law.

Say he pleaded with you on his knees: "Please don't make me do it, I apologise, I'll even pay you so you can get a similar cake across the road, but please don't force me to break my religion", but you answered: "No way! You bake it now or I call the police!".

Now the baker's spirit was weak and out of fear he baked you that cake, cursing both you and himself: how would you feel about eating that cake?

//how would you feel about eating that cake?//

What sort of cake? I'm happy with most flavours, but if it's got coffee in it forget about it.

Got some fruit cakes on here, and they all voted NO. Can live with that.

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
"Such is life"
The baker will go quietly when the Feds arrive, in handcuffs and to the gallows . The workers' flag is of the deepest red . Remember Joan or Arc .

Joan of Arc. Maid of Orleans .