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In upstate New York, Robert and Cynthia Gifford were recently fined $13,000 for refusing to host a lesbian wedding on their private farm. They were also ordered to pay restitution to the lesbian couple, who held their wedding elsewhere.

In Oregon, Aaron and Melissa Klein were forced to shut down their bakery, Sweet Cakes by Melissa, after refusing, on religious grounds, to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding. State officials ruled that the Kleins violated the lesbian couples civil rights, and the Kleins now face staggering penalties.

In Washington State, florist Barronelle Stutzman faced two lawsuits over her refusal to provide flowers for a wedding for two gay men. The states attorney general brought a consumer protection lawsuit against Ms. Stutzman, seeking fines against her business. The gay couple then brought a private civil action seeking money damages.

Such developments are not confined to deep blue states, however. In Colorado, Jack Phillips, the owner of the Masterpiece Cakeshop, has endured legal hell after refusing to bake a cake for a gay couple. The couple filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which found for the gay men, then ordered Phillips to bake cakes for gay customers and forced his employees to submit to training on Colorados anti-discrimination laws.

Adding insult to non-existent injury, Phillips was further required to submit quarterly reports to the Commission to confirm that his shop did not turn away customers based on their sexual orientation. In the wake of this Stalin-esque treatment, Phillips ceased baking cakes altogether, and rightly refused to implement new training procedures.

In New Mexico, photographer Elaine Huguenin found herself on the losing end of a protracted legal battle after she refused to photograph a lesbian couples commitment ceremony. The couple filed a complaint and the state Supreme Court found that the business violated New Mexicos Human Rights Act.

And in Kentucky last month, the head of a county human rights commission ruled that Hands on Originals, a T-shirt maker owned by a Christian, Blaine Adamson, violated a city fairness ordinance when it refused to print T-shirts for a gay pride event. Like in Colorado, the commission ordered company employees to attend diversity training and required the company to stop discriminating against people based on their sexual orientation. Curiously, the company had previously filled orders for homosexual customers and employed gay individuals.

These cases raise the general question of whether it is ever ethically proper to permit business practices be determined by the religious views of those who own or run the business. Making reference to the required readings and your own experiences, answer this question. If you believe it is sometimes ethically proper, under what conditions is it ethically proper? If it is not ethically proper, does that mean that the ethics of business practices needs to be totally divorced from religious views?