Not at all. But I also understand practicality. If you’re a business open to the public some of your customers WILL be gay, period. Even at the lowest estimates of their population any kind of successful business is looking at at least a couple of gay customers every day. If you don’t want to deal with them don’t have a business open to the public. You’re free to have your religion all you want, but you need to deal with certain meathook realities too.
Not advocating throwing away any principle. There is no principle that says you have to agree with your customers’ lifestyle. I’m recommending not looking for hassles in this world. If you’re in the wedding cake business you’ve been dealing with gays constantly anyway, just which team did you think the male wedding planners played for? Now all of a sudden it’s a problem if the wedding planners get married, really? How were you handling atheists getting married? They’re violating your rules just as much as the gays.
Smart businesses don’t approve or disapprove of their customers. Businesses exist to make money, you want to get in the personal approval business start a church. Who said anything about getting a job just because you show up? That’s you adding stupid content to make a strawman. Customers != prospective employees.
I don’t have commerce as God, as have commerce as the point of business. You start a business to make money, period. If the goal is not making money start something else.
I’m a lot more American than you, for one thing I actually know that the first amendment has nothing to do with this situation.
Nicely said.