>>Depends on what you mean by "cater for." If people come into the bakery and want to buy items the bakery sells, then the bakery should have to sell to them.
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>This is still the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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>If I want to refuse to work on a project, for whatever reason, I can do it.
>However, that takes away my right to whine if the client fires me.
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>When Woolworths exercised its right not to serve black people at its lunch counters, black people exercised their rights and boycotted Woolworths, or risked going to jail by sitting in at the counters.
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>Eventually, Woolworths exercised its rights and allowed black people at its lunch counters, to the chagrin of many white people who then exercised their rights and boycotted Woolworths.
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>That's how freedom works.
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>Saying that the bakery "should have to sell to them" is no less onerous than saying that the bakery can't sell to them.

In fact, the law (Specifically, Title 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964) says that if you run a public accommodation, then you have to serve whoever walks in the door (barring behavioral issues). That's why hotels and restaurants can't turn customers away based on their race or religion. The same applies to a bakery and is why I specifically addressed buying items the bakery sells. The bakery can't be compelled to make special items or even to bake more once they've run out, but it can be compelled to serve customers who come in to buy what they have.

You and I can turn down a project because we are not public accommodations.

Tamar