This Couple Came Into The Shop

This Couple Came Into The Shop

This couple came into the shop

And being that the pair was gay

They asked the baker put on top

A pair to make their happy day.

Since it’s this Christian bakery

It begs an open question: why

They didn’t know before that he

Would not be willing to comply?

The Christian baker said, I won’t

Bake such a cake to celebrate

A same-sex marriage, for I don’t

Believe I should participate.

Whilst they persisted anyway

For, saying he’d discriminate

Against the couple, being gay,

A penalty should compensate.

To decorate your cake’s an art

And artists are the people who

Invest not only time but heart

Into the kind of work they do.

And if you’re getting married why

Would you compel a man to bake

A cake because you’d want to buy

What willingly he wouldn’t make?

All services are bought and sold

But why’d a customer come say,

You do exactly as you’re told,

And better do it in my way!?

That’s not the way I’d want to speak

With one who’d bake a cake for me—

Unless occasion I would seek,

As in this case it seems to be.

So that it seems to me those gays

Had more than only cake in mind

So as to make their federal case

Of how it ought to be designed.

Whether it’s cake you decorate

Or else a picture that you paint

Your right is to discriminate

Between whatever is and ain’t.

If that is hate as some would say

Then what is love, when after all

A person does his thing the way

He wants it either large or small?

And those who say we have to do

It their way or else have to stop,

Impose their narrow-minded view

Upon the one who runs his shop.

So why would you ask anyone—

With bakeries beside to choose—

Unless the cake you wanted done

You knew the baker would refuse?

I wouldn’t ask someone to do

Some job for me if I were gay,

Which I for sure already knew

He wouldn’t do it for good pay—

Unless that’s what I asked him for,

Because I’d have a point to make

Against that owner of that store

Who’d never bake me such a cake.

What kind of court would overlook

These questions—obvious as that—

Unless they had to “throw the book”

At him who they have thrown it at?