Yes, if they have a corporate policy then it should be communicated to the staff and practiced - You don't have to accept someone's custom, I suppose (although you can't refuse them on the basis of being gay) but once you have taken an order you have entered into a contract with that party.

I would imagine that you should communicate that policy to your staff and the people taking orders.

I disagree with the part in regards to a business, as a business, except maybe as applies to a sole trader, as a business is not a person, but a collection of people. Furthermore, businesses have to operate in line with commercial law and regulation.

Its not about an individual, this is about a company violating contract law and commercial law on the basis of the views of some of its owners.

In either case both could turn down the order but they cannot accept it, and then change their minds.

They aren't required to, as a service they do not have to enter into a contract, but if they do accept a contract then they are bound by it.

By rejecting it later, you're breaking the contract with the ordering party, which opens you to redress. Same as any contract, once you accept it, you can't just break it without redress or recourse for the aggrieved party.

I work

If they accepted the contract in the first place, then yes.

In addition to that you cannot discriminate against a client based on race, gender, sexual orientation or religion (ie you have to find another reason to turn down their business).

Which wasn't the finding of the case, or the appeals, where the judges specifically stated they have violated commercial law in regards to discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation, and awarded costs to the plaintiff.

I don't know the full ins and outs, of the case, but it seems that they have failed at least twice now to show their actions were reasonable, and non discriminatory.

What they might do in different hyperthetical circumstances, is irrelevant, the case in question is what counts.

They broke a contractual obligation unreasonably, and protested a false ground, on which sufficient grounds were presented for them to have violated commercial law regarding discrimination.

As the judge points out, repeatedly, their business is not a Christian business, and as such their beliefs remain irrelevant. Once they accepted payment they were contractually obligated to produce their end of the deal.

I'm sure their god will reward them in the next life for the martyrdom or whatever.

Probably shouldn't confuse Gypsy and Traveller. Travellers are trained to fight from being very small, forced into hitting each other as children. They think fighting is good sport and natural.

They also think dropping potentially dangerous rubbish anywhere they feel like is absolutely fine. Can't see there is much to celebrate in a culture like that and I really don't know how they get away with as much as they do. When they turn up they are a mobile crimewave. Why on earth would anyone want them around, especially as you will get a fistful if you complain.

I've worked at a Gypsy wedding once (didn't know they were travellers until they turned up), absolute fcking nightmare.

It was running ok until they decided to have a fight in the middle of the dance floor... blood everywhere, and we found part of someone's ear!!!
I had to pull 2 members of staff into the kitchen area and lock the doors or god knows what would've happened if we got caught in it.