These lawsuits can easily relate to art because baking is indeed a form of art. The act of baking the cake, designing it and making it look really nice could be like sculpture or woodworking if you wanna stretch it that far. In woodworking you carve something out of some wood, or make a table or chair. Pretty much anything with wood working you have to measure, design ahead and paint to make it look like it was made well. Also a common stereotype is that gay people like art so that’s another thing that relates this topic to it.
Although the art of baking isn’t directly related to homophobia, it can be related to religion, baking bread is a part of baking, and Jesus ate bread during the last supper. Bread without yeast is also a huge part of some religions that celebrate passover, where they only had bread without yeast and also sacrificed a lamb to prevent the holy spirit from coming in and killing their first born child. The major significance of this was that the Jews were enslaved by the Egyptians and God sent the Holy Spirit to kill all the Egyptians first borns. The Holy Spirit would pass over the homes with lambs blood painted on the door, which all the Jews did. Now it’s a common practice to fast and only eat flat bread during Passover.
Painting is also a huge part of religion due to the many paintings of Jesus at the last supper, mary, Jesus on the cross, etc. These are all very significant in religion. Churches also tend to have a color theme during the year that changes during every church season, like right now we are in the season of Lent, which lasts until Easter, basically we give up one thing that we use a lot in our lives to better ourselves overall. Another season is in the winter and it’s the christmas season where we celebrate Jesus birth.
Art can be related to homosexuality because of symbolism, the gay flag, gay art, art depicting gay people, etc. A common stereotype is that gay people also like home design, which can be art. I have plenty of gay friends who are super into design and art. It tends to be very bright colors that my friends at least prefer the most. So they have that going for them I guess.
Basically to recap it all, Art is very important to both religious people, gay people, and even religious gay people because those people exist.
Gay people and Cakes 