[wags]

If one makes the choice to open a business, then one should expect that your customers are going to be from the area you open that business.

If one is Muslim, perhaps opening a butcher shop in North America is not the best decision for said Muslim, since in North America, we eat pork.

IMO, refusing service on these grounds and using religion as an excuse is gutless more than it is viable.

For the Muslim opening a butcher shop, the building you're in, the equipment you use, and the customers you serve, eat pork (as a generalized statement). Your religion didn't stop you from using the equipment, renting the shop, etc. Your business is sustained by people that eat pork. without the pork eating people, your business likely will not survive. Seems hypocritical.

Same for the Christian baker. Your business is to make cakes. Sorry to say, but many of the cakes you make are eaten by gay people. Much of the equipment and supplies at some point have had a hand in it by someone that was gay.

Seems like religion is an excuse used when it benefits them to use it. If not, they've chosen the wrong line of work to align with their beliefs.

Cheers