"Stutzman refused service to gay couple Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed in 2013."
No, they didn't refuse to service, they would have sold them a cake without a message. They offered to do so and they would have been required to do so.
I'm going to try and simplify this as much as I can...
If you sell cakes as a business you have to sell to homosexuals provided it's the same cake you provide all of your other customers. What they can't do is make you write a message you disagree with on that cake.
"they also argued that arranging flowers was a form of creative expression and thus protected under free speech provisions."
Was anything hindering "their" creative expression? If the arrangement requested had no homosexual message being conveyed then I would probably say no. I could probably order a Rainbow colored arrangement and not said what it was for and got it.
And there in lies the problem.
Don't say what it's for and you probably get it.
Say what it's for and they get to fine the shit out of you...
"Stutzman refused service to gay couple Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed in 2013."
No, they didn't refuse to service, they would have sold them a cake without a message. They offered to do so and they would have been required to do so.
I'm going to try and simplify this as much as I can...
If you sell cakes as a business you have to sell to homosexuals provided it's the same cake you provide all of your other customers. What they can't do is make you write a message you disagree with on that cake.
"they also argued that arranging flowers was a form of creative expression and thus protected under free speech provisions."
Was anything hindering "their" creative expression? If the arrangement requested had no homosexual message being conveyed then I would probably say no. I could probably order a Rainbow colored arrangement and not said what it was for and got it.
And there in lies the problem.
Don't say what it's for and you probably get it.
Say what it's for and they get to fine the shit out of you...