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Hey, everybody. This is Heidi St. John. Welcome to the podcast today is Mailbox Monday.

It is Monday, January 8, 2018. I'm not quite used to writing 2018. I've written 2017 a whole bunch of times,

but I'll get the hang of it probably around October.

And we've got a pretty sensitive question today over at the podcast.

I think kind of sparked a little bit about, or sparked a little bit at least by the debate that's happening at the Supreme Court right now.

What we're saying happening with sweet cakes for Melissa, but this is happening inside this family.

So we're going to talk about it from a biblical point of view. Stick around. I think you're going to be encouraged.

All right. So I love taking your questions. If you have a question that you would like to shoot out to me,

please do that at podcast at the busy mom.com. Please make sure to put mailbox Monday in your question.

Today's question comes from a listener who's been, I guess she well sounds like she's been listening to the podcast for a long time.

And so I appreciate that. Thank you guys so much for listening and for a praying for us. We appreciate it.

She writes, I was recently faced with a lesbian couple wanting my son to create art, barring their initials of union.

On a plaque. He does wood burning. They wanted an established date on it.

And she was saying that her, she said it's kind of a long story short, but she wants to know if I have ever talked about this on the podcast and what to say when we're asked to offer services for something that we disagree with.

And so this is a tough, this is a really tough, it's a tough question because a, we want to, we want to be able to be loving and be kind to everyone who's around us.

And be, we recognize we serve the Lord. And as I wrote back to this mom and I said, listen, I have actually spoken on this issue a few times over at the podcast.

I had my friend Judy on the podcast about a year and a half ago. She lived most of her young adult life in a lesbian relationship.

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