The marketplace should be the final arbiter. Not overbearing government. I should be able to sell goods and services to whomever I choose. The marketplace will ultimately give a thumbs up or thumbs down to my firm’s policies. Government should have no role and no right in the matter. Period.
People forget that in God’s eyes, homosexuality is indistinguishable from murder. He prescribed the same punishment for both offenses.
“The marketplace should be the final arbiter. Not overbearing government. I should be able to sell goods and services to whomever I choose.”
I agree. For example, there was a story the other day about a gentleman with a custom made car, who ended up donating it to Jay Leno, because he didn’t want it to be scavenged for parts after he died. Now, there are plenty of people who sell something and “want it to go to a good home”, like that gentleman. They’re doing nothing different than someone denying a service to a homosexual. Either way it’s discrimination, but one is termed lawful discrimination, and the other unlawful.
So, we’ve set up a system where a perfectly lawful choice becomes unlawful if exercised against certain groups. That makes the rest of us, who aren’t in those groups second class citizens, with lesser legal protection under the law. It also leaves the government in the position of criminalizing motives rather than actions. Just like “hate speech” laws, that is dancing dangerously close to “thoughtcrime”.