Plantation Weddings – And Wedding Cakes

In Thursday’s Chicago Tribune, Lesley Williams wrote that “plantation weddings” are another symbol of the slavocracy we need to get rid of.  I’m not going to go into that question.  What I found interesting in her article, rather, was the comment by a photographer (and historian) that he has, in Ms. Williams’ words, “decided he could not in good conscience continue to photograph plantation weddings.”

I understand the photographer has conscience issues with photographing weddings at former slave plantations.  But I was wondering how this view, which I assume many people would approve of, fits with the view many also have, especially on the left, that bakery owners, and photographers, should not be able to refuse to bake cakes for, or take pictures at, same-sex weddings because such weddings violate their religious beliefs, i.e., their conscience.

I certainly would not require the photographer to take pictures of a wedding at a venue he sincerely disapproves of.  On the other hand, doesn’t that also mean we shouldn’t ask a bakery to make a cake with a special message on it for a same-sex wedding or ask a photographer to take pictures at such a wedding if doing so would violate their conscience?^1.2
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¹ I can’t figure out why anybody would want a photographer who felt that way to take pictures of their wedding.  It’s hard to believe he or she would do all that good of a job.  Same for a bakery.
² Also, while I would agree that we should allow one’s conscience to control when it comes to wedding pictures or cakes with special messages on them, that does not apply to a hotel, a restaurant, a theater, a real estate agent, or many, many other things.