Completely Inconsistent Rulings on Christians and Homophobes.

Posted on the 10 June 2015 by Markwadsworth @Mark_Wadsworth

Case 1, bakery found to have broken anti-discrimination laws by refusing to bake a gay wedding cake.
Case 2, employee sacked for homophobic remarks wins unfair dismissal case.
IMHO both were 'wrongly' decided. If a business refuses to provide certain goods or services, so be it, the consumer can go elsewhere. And if an employee makes life unpleasant for other employees (which I don't think she did, she just spouted normal Bible stuff), then the employer should be able to sack him or her.
But put the two cases together into the following scenario, and what do you get..?
An open-minded bakery company, as a matter of company policy, is quite happy to make gay cakes. But when a gay man goes to order one, a homophobic employee flatly refuses to make it.
Can the employee be sacked? Case 2 tells us no, provided he can persuade the Employment Tribunal that he acted that way because of 'religious belief' rather just being a bigot.
But can the jilted customer then sue the bakery for discrimination? Case 1 says yes, but if there were any consistency, then the answer would be no.
Or to sum up, if it's your own business, you are bound by anti-discrimination laws, but employees can do what they like.