I’m sorry, but you didn’t explain how you “knew” the couple in your example was gay.
Did they dress and act like everyone else at the restaurant?
Really? If so, why would anyone object to them?
Or was the couple so - er - “flamboyant” that they offended other customers — and were easily identified?
Hopefully, you DO see the difference between these two cases.
IMHO, we should not buy into the theory that rejecting particular ACTIONS is the same, exact thing as rejecting the ACTORS themselves, which is alleged to be illegal.
As evidence of this, consider the statement that the florist sold flowers to one of the men for years — just not for a “same-sex” marriage.
And I think we should push back when we see a active persecution of specific individuals — in this case, the florist.
IMHO, the mean-spirited (bitchy?) persecution of that poor woman shown here is much more serious than the discrimination imagined (or wished for?) by the “happy couple”...
I dont but I never hear those who get on TV and asked questions, like Pence, making that distinction.