SEC. 3. Public accommodations....(4) any establishment that provides a good, service, or program... (2) shall not be construed to be limited to a physical facility or place.”.
Sounds broad enough to include churches. Even meeting outside, and thus requiring the hiring of LGBTQ ministers.
I’m sure it does. When they were first proposing same-sex marriage here, the testimony of the Attorney General and Civil Rights Commission was that they intended to include churches within the definition of “public accommodations.” To avoid being classified as a public accommodation and therefore being required to conduct same-sex marriages, the church had to meet the following requirements: (1) Not be open to the public or advertise or invite the public to attend its services (e.g., no Christmas or Easter services for outsiders, not to mention every week); (2) attendance had to be restricted to “members” and “invited guests,” like a private club; and (3) marriage ceremonies could only be between church members. The Catholic Church and others threatened to sue and so they backed down and put some religious toleration language in, but that was not how it was originally drafted.
And we know how that works. Boiling frogs.
I dunno, maybe this is payback for all the gay bashing conservatives participated in up until recently. I knew personally one neo-Nazi black magic practitioner, Nikolas Shrek, who had his ear cut off when he tried to spread fear and terror with his fists in SF’s Castro District in the late 1980’s. This is NOT a fake story. Our past is not unblemished and is a direct cause of the rabid hatred the left visits against us.
I guess this means the can come eat at your table in your house and there ain’t a damn thing anyone can do about it.