Piece of cake

SIR – As the time approaches for the Supreme Court hearing of an appeal by Ashers bakery against the ruling that it was guilty of discrimination for refusing to put a gay marriage slogan on a wedding cake, I respectfully offer the judges a simple proof that the bakers were not discriminating against the gay man who placed the order.

Consider if a friend of the gay man, who was himself straight, had told the couple that he was going to give them the wedding cake and they should leave it to him to place the order as he thought fit. The bakers would have said to him exactly what they did say, namely that they could certainly bake the cake but they would not put the slogan on it.

They would treat the gay and the straight man in exactly the same way. So where is the discrimination? Charles Lewis

London N2