The troubling logic at the heart of the ‘Gay cake’ ruling

My late father was a pottery maker, and very good at it. Question is, if a Northern Protestant had come to his studio to request that he produce a teaset decorated with the legend: ‘Taigs Out of Ulster!’ or ‘Kick the Pope!’ perhaps with decoration to match, would my daddy have been obliged to oblige him on the basis that he was offering to make ceramics for all comers, regardless of their religious persuasion? Would the production of Protestant ceramics have been part of his offer to the teaset-buying community? Or could he have declined on the basis that this was offensive to his beliefs as a non-practising Roman Catholic?

I am sorry to say that my daddy would almost certainly have produced the teaset, with imaginative anti-papist flourishes, taken the man’s money, and been glad to get it. He would have flourished his bundle of Protestant tenners and told the story in every social gathering he attended.