Another effort to side step a direct confrontation on an important matter of principle.
The *ONLY* correct answer is " I will not do it because I don't want to."
People should have the right to run their business anyway they see fit. They don't have to explain themselves, they can just say "No", and for any reason they D@mn well please.
You nailed it. We shouldn’t have to assert our rights through subterfuge or duplicity.
I don't quite agree. Some people have the time and energy to fight moral battles at various points in their lives, and I have done that when the time was right. There may be a lot of good reasons why you would not fight a battle, even when you are facing evil. In those cases, I dodge the battle. We are facing pure evil, and I will not take much time from my family to fight a battle where the odds are against me.
In Oregon, with that evil thug wielding so much power, Sweet Cakes had no chance of winning. They still did a lot of good by showing just how malignant and power hungry the totalitarian left is, but I would not have put my family through the hell they endured. They were part of the reason why the non-voting right showed up last Tuesday, and I am grateful to them for that. Still, they paid a very heavy price for their choice, even if it was a moral decision that they had a constitutional right to make.