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In reply to the discussion: Christian wedding photographer can't be forced to work same-sex weddings, judge rules [View all]Hassin Bin Sober
(27,396 posts)... at the lunch counter.
If anyone thinks that if businesses are allowed, in certain parts of the country, to discriminate then others wont be pressured in to discriminating, you havent been paying attention.
Businesses in the south werent pressured by market forces to serve black people. Quite the opposite - businesses that desired to serve black people were branded n*gger lovers and run out of business.
We already had that slippery slope and we slid all the way down.
There is no such thing as a private business as it pertains to civil rights and discrimination. Thats the point. Dont go in to business if you dont want to abide by the law if the land.
Either congress can regulate businesses or it cant. Either gay people are entitled to the same protections as other minorities or they are not.