Former Obama speechwriter Jon Lovett: No need for a ‘cake mandate’

Somebody is a jerk and won't sell you a cake. You file a complaint with the attorney general?

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett Again I'm unsure how this is different from refusing to serve black people.

— Rainbow Stalin (@RBStalin) December 7, 2013

Refused to make a kind of cake. Not to serve a kind of customer. RT @RBStalin: How is this is different from refusing to serve black people

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett What if they wouldn't sell blacks or Jews or Muslims cakes?

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013

.@pourmecoffee Difference between refusing Jewish customers and refusing to to draw a menorah on a cake, right?

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett "We don't do the Star of David here. Go to one of your own kind." You're okay with this?

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013

.@pourmecoffee Of course not! But it's a pretty high threshold to demand a baker participate in a wedding if he doesn't want to do it.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett I think it's pretty clear this was overt discrimination based solely on sexual preference and I'm glad they are seeking a remedy.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) December 7, 2013

@pourmecoffee I see you're point, and maybe you're right, maybe he wouldn't sell them anything, but that's not what happened here.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett @pourmecoffee How is the bakery's conduct different from a lunch counter that will not serve certain patrons based on their race?

— Mike Weiner (@mikeweiner_1967) December 7, 2013

@mikeweiner_1967 there's a difference between refusing gay people and refusing to cater a gay wedding

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

We can achieve marriage equality without creating a cake mandate.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

Oh you guys LOVE when I make fun of John Boehner but one heterodox (homodox?) opinion and you rip me apart!

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013

@jonlovett welcome to the internet, bruh

— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 7, 2013

I'm very supportive of gay people, up to and including sleeping with them exclusively.

— Jon Lovett (@jonlovett) December 7, 2013