No it is not explicit in the way you present it.
The baker would definately bake a wedding cake for the gay man! That is, IF he was marrying a woman.
That is no discrimination against who he is but the baker is taking a stand against what his potential customer does, , i.e. his action.
It is like Christians saying they will not condone homosexual behavior, but they love homosexual people.
I realize that to many people this is a difference without a distinction, but I think it makes some sense. I havent bought the argument entirely, but I do see it.
As a follower of Messiah Yeshua (Jesus Christ of Nazareth) myself, addressing this very specific point? I am left with three questions to the situation that has just been ruled on.
1) As per
1 Corinthians 5:9-13, how is this business owner's actions in line with the teachings of the faith? Were the men getting married
professing to be Christian? If this is the case, then the baker is fully within the right to refuse, but it should have been a matter handled internally as per
1 Corinthians 6:1-11, and not in the courts of the land. (1 Corinthians in general has a lot to say in regard to these topics specifically regarding sexual immorality and justice, and I'm left wondering how many people within the faith have actually bothered reading the letter in
full.)
2) Sexual immorality is a big issue to address in justice and mercy with the goal of repentance and salvation
within the body of believers, not outside. Within the context of sexual sin and the teachings of Yeshua in
Matthew 5:31-32 and
Luke 16:18, will the baker make a wedding cake for Christian divorcees getting remarried if the Christian divorcee in question deliberately left someone else either within
or outside of the faith over a hardened heart? If so, that too is supporting sexual immorality and adultery. One cannot deny one but permit the other, as neither can inherit the Kingdom of Heaven as per the previously referenced passages of 1 Corinthians, specifically verses 6:9-10.
3) Even just for the sake of even application of justice, let's say it
is okay to deny doing work for sexual sinners
outside of the body of believers on the basis of freedom of conscience. We can lump it into the same category as denying to create idols or sacrifice food to them as per the request of a customer for the sake of argument. Again, I go back to question two for the litmus test on righteousness in the baker's actions specifically: Does he bake wedding cakes for
any divorcees getting remarried?
If just one of those questions is answered in the affermative, this is not a ruling for the freedom of practicing one's personal faith.