You think America needs laws forbidding a baker from baking a cake for a gay couple who were going to have a pretend marriage ceremony? Probably not, right? I mean, if some baker said, "Sure, I'll bake a cake for you two fruitcakes in your pretend ceremony," you wouldn't have a problem with that? I wouldn't. That's the baker's business.
Do we need laws forbidding a company from saying, "Sure, I'll go along with it and pretend you guys are married, and will extend the same benefits to your so-called 'spouse' if you want" -- do we need laws forbidding that? We never have before.
What we have is law that forces it, punishes anyone who doesn't go along, when I think the business owner has the God-given right to say, "Nah, go find some other place to work. I reserve spouse benefits for real spouses." That's conservative.
Americans don't need laws forbidding them to "marry" gay partners. Members of the military don't need laws forbidding homosexuals from acting openly in its culture of officers and ranks.
Americans by nature reject open homosexuality civilly and peacefully -- civilized Westerners have done so for centuries.
Recent judicial and civil rights law forbid a cake baker from refusing to serve a homosexual couple. Laws now punish military folks for discriminating against an openly homosexual person from being included in various activities and venues. That is the authoritarian way of today's government, and it got there because a minority basically cheated and manipulated its way into power over a majority, and then used government to dictate morality.
That very authoritarianism via laws forbidding moral choices, is what has brought the problem about -- government is the mechanism of tyranny. Advocating for more of it in the other direction is as misguided.
You think forbidding homosexual marriage or gays in the military, is authoritarian? or conservative?
It looks like your answer is “authoritarian”, you are pushing liberalism and starting a new anti-conservative attack by labeling conservatism “authoritarian”.
You lefties come at conservatism from all kinds of angles, using all kinds of vocabularies, in all kinds of mediums, and on all kinds of forums, even conservative ones have people working the left’s angle (with adjusted language of course).
But you all have the same end goal.