I operate a retail business. There have been times I have told customers to leave. Typically they have been young white males with a nasty attitude. Sometimes older idiots try to tell me how to run my business and I show them the door. Yes, I have the right to serve whom I choose.
I do not, however, test my customers with a questionnaire about their religious or ethical beliefs. If they are courteous, decent and are honestly seeking my product I am happy to serve them. It is my constant prayer that I will influence those who come to my business with the ministry of Christ. I rarely mention His name. Those who are open to His message receive what they are able. Those who are closed do not. I do not judge.
Sometimes a life is opened to me and I offer ministry in a direct way. More often I seek to build a relationship with knowledge, experience and support for their efforts.
BTW, I operate a pet shop and am known hereabouts as Father Fish.
Were I asked to install a fish tank in a local abortion center or gay club I would have to pray about it. It would, after all, allow me to enter the lion’s den and witness to my beliefs. I am not afraid to face the enemy.
> “Were I asked to install a fish tank in a local abortion center or gay club I would have to pray about it.”
Fish Tanks are a false equivalence, non-comparable to floral arrangements, singing, photographing, decorating, cake making, honey moon inns, parading ... or any activity that celebrates an abomination, a sin before God.
We are all sinners. But if we believe in Him, we repent of our sins, we try to do better, WE DO NOT CELEBRATE OUR SIN.
We can make cakes, floral arrangements, rent rooms, decorate an interior and so on for people we suspect are homosexual,
but this is not the same as CELEBRATING THEIR PERVERSITY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
Your fish tanks are not a celebration of holy matrimony or any other sacred rite. They are ornaments to decorating or of meditation or of curiosity or wonder. To put them in abortion clinics or homosexual clubs is not celebrating sin. It is merely a statement of creatures that live in the water that remind people of the wonders of nature.