Some "idiot" wants something... that's on the menu?

It's not that simple. What if the pharmacist is Catholic and the customer asks for birth control and he refuses because it's against his religion to use birth control? Would that be an acceptable reason for refusing or would he have to violate his beliefs because some idiot wants something?

See how this works?

You do raise a valid point, but I don't agree. Unless the "chef" (someone who makes pizza is not a chef. That's like calling a construction worker a cabinet maker) is a pastafarian, the "chef" is just posturing. I owned a restaurant, and we made pizza, thin crust Italian style. We made our dough in house, with 00 flour, fresh yeast, 4 day fermentation, homemade sauce, fresh toppings, etc.. There were no chefs involved, just a cook and a helper or two. You can make some pretty awesome pizza by doing everything in house with quality ingredients, or you can "assemble" pizzas from industrial "components" like they do in pizza chains, but at the end it's spread dough with stuff on it.

Making homemade sourdough pancakes with home raised sourdough, with farm eggs, pasteurized whole milk (actually in this case, since the mix gets cooked, maybe raw milk would be OK, but I'm not a pathologist), actual whole milk, not the semi skimmed milk they sell you as whole, served with real maple syrup, and homemade whipped cream, or farm butter, will produce heavenly pancakes, but doesn't make you a pastry chef.

The term chef is wildly degraded nowadays anyway. A chef is a guy, very experienced who runs a largish operation, highly coordinated, to serve the best culinary experience in a very short time window. Chef means chief, or boss, like a store manager, or a construction boss/manager/whatever. Essentially a very skilled coordinator.

You can kind of guess my views on this by my "I shit on the cross", but:

I don't think whatever religion you follow is a good excuse to force your views on the others. So in that situation I'd understand if:

• the chef refused to work in a restaurant because it serves bacon, because he's still choosing it for himself, not for the others.
• they refused because that restaurant serves no bacon (e.g. a restaurant marketed for Muslims), because that would be equivalent to asking an oil painter to sculpt on marble

But if the restaurant serves bacon, and the chef works there, it's the chef's responsibility to give the client bacon, to the best of their capabilities.

And before another poster babbles about "art" again: an artist is a servant of the people. Artists who see themselves as leaders are full of shit.