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Originally Posted by Villages PL
Last night I was listening to a program on NPR about all the lawsuits that are coming about because of religious people refusing to provide services to gays who are getting married. For example, a baker refused to provied a wedding cake with two women on top. He said it would be against his religion. Sorry I don't remember all the different circumstances. Another one was a limo service.
It has been said on this thread, in favor of gay marriage, that people should "live and let live". Where is that attitude on the gay side? Instead of suing someone because the person happens to have strong religious convictions, why don't they just say "live and let live"? They could say, "thanks for your honesty, we'll find another baker". Or, "we'll find another limo".
"Live and let live" should be a two way street.
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This is so accurate. I read this somewhere else about other wedding services providers too.
And since when is it a civil rights and discrimination action when the desired purchase is between a buyer and a vendor who is not a government-sector nor government contractor?
We're supposed to have a free-enterprise system in which the buyer is free to buy or walk away, and the seller is free to produce or not produce, market and sell if he so chooses.
If the private sector baker does not want to put out and sell a cake that to him would portray his products and services badly, then that is his choice to make.
If a wedding DJ believes it mocks God's authority and commandments to enable homosexual couples to be dancing and smooching in front of him for hours, then that is his call to make.
Suing people for such things would be childish at best and punitive at worst. And I think "punitive" is what it is ALL about.