In his comment on your editorial “Common sense was missing ingredient” (29 October), James Cormick (Letters, 5 November) mistakenly interprets the Northern Ireland Appeal Court judgment that upheld a finding of unlawful discrimination against Ashers Bakery, which had refused to decorate a cake with the words “Support Gay Marriage”, as a conflict between ideological positions, instead of a dispute over legal rights. Moreover, whether homosexuality or opposition to it ought to be promoted or not is a moral, not a legal question, unless a specific law exists protecting the one and/or prohibiting the other. The existing law against unfair discrimination, however, is not relevant to this case, since simply securing a personal objective at the expense of others achieving theirs, is, if discriminatory at all, not of itself unfair.