Christian wedding photographer can't be forced to work same-sex weddings, judge rules

[mr_lebowski]

59. That's not what I said.

Movement towards increased rights tends to happen slower than we would like, but it's smart to pick one's battles.

Would you insist that a pastor/reverend/priest provides officiating services to a gay couple, if asked and offered money to do so?

Guessing you'd say no, but only on the grounds that priesthood is not a business like a photographer. But it kinda is, because they do take money for that service at least in some cases.

Anyways, to these people, it's the same idea in their minds.

Gay marriage is still relatively new, I think it's smart to give the resisters some time to come around AS LONG AS the ramifications are minimal. Which they are in this case. I'm thinking ... don't give them ammunition to organize resistance around, that a large % of the population are going to be sympathetic to. They're mostly all willing to 'accept' at this point. That's pretty good progress for a movement like this one. But they bristle at feeling 'forced to support'. They feel it goes against their ridiculous fantasy sky daddy-based 'way of life', and unfortunately that 'way of life' is offered some legal protections, too.

And just like a lot of people on this thread are saying 'you can find someone else who's happy to do it' ... that's what they're arguing as well.

I think most of them will come around over time. Just like nobody right now is going to refuse to photograph a 'mixed marriage' on religious grounds. But in, say, 1967 ... there probably was still a handful of stragglers.