To the Editor:
Re “States Weigh Gay Marriage, Rights and Cake” (news article, July 8):
My late father, a talented baker who owned and operated a pastry shop in Scarsdale, N.Y., was a passionate advocate for civil liberties and human rights. He was a baker by day and an activist by night.
Were he alive, he would share this tip with Jack Phillips, the Colorado baker who does not want to create wedding cakes for same-sex couples: The ingredients of equality and respect for all in society must be combined as carefully as the ratio of butter, sugar, flour, filling and butter cream in every wedding cake.
And a key ingredient for success in a bakery is the joy of baking to make others happy.
In short, if you can’t stand the joy, then it is time to get out of the bakery kitchen. If you bake for one, then you must bake for all.
STUART SCHEAR
New York
Note from KBJ: Really? Does this apply to Muslim bakers? What if I wanted a cake that depicted Mohammed? What if a member of the Ku Klux Klan wanted a cake from a black baker? What if a Nazi wanted a cake from a Jewish baker? What if a person wanted a cake that said "I hate fags" from a homosexual baker? What if a man wanted a cake that said "Women are bitches" from a female baker?
