“when the choice is either to compromise or stand firm”
Sometimes the only way to win the game is to refuse to play.
The best time to do that is when the game is rigged by evil people.
You should have the right to choose when you fight battles and to structure the battlefield so you will win.
The perverts currently control the legal battlefield.
See my past replies on this issue. You can tactically flee overwhelming odds to continue that battles on another hill against the same foe, but other times you may fight with the expectation of winning, if not certain, while in other scenarios there is not choice, you either confess Jesus is Lord because He and face the lions is or you deny this, confess the Great Commie Leader is divine and lose your soul.
You either refuse to shoot unarmed Jews (or peaceful American law-abiding citizens) by the command of the Great Woke Leader and be shot or do what it right.
You either refuse to be complicit in celebrating an immoral and illegal wedding when asked and face the wrath of proxy servants of the devil or refuse to and win.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. (Ephesians 6:12)The devil, as the original Leftist (and thus employed the victim entitlement mentality from the beginning of his seductions) who comes to "steal, and to kill, and to destroy" (John 10:10) in his lust for power and glory, works to pervert all that reflects God's wisdom and thereby give honor to Him, and thus seeks all to salute the flag of Sodom, from the womb (if he does not snuff out innocent life there) to the grave.
And in the future I expect more business to require employees to signify that they affirm homosexual unions, as team players in an army of degradation.
In the case of Davis, this was the first time I know of in refusing to sign off on this license of perversion at issue, and she must have hopefully presumed she could prevail, but could not as yet, yet aside from lack of wisdom, the only real fault here may be that she loved her job too much, and< I think that href="http://peacebyjesus.net/womenpastors.html"> in principal, a position of such authority is one a women should normally not seek to be in.
Perhaps this could be appealed to the SCOTUS, however, having sanctified the homosexual bed, they find it difficult to clearly side with those who refuse to make it, as seen in their restrained judgment in the case of Masterpiece bakery, which refusal to be complicit in celebrating an immoral and illegal wedding (at the time, as per state constitution) should have been a slam-dunk case of vindication.
However, slippery-slope secular conservatives can be like those who let Hilters gobble of people and power under the premise that there are more important battles to win.
When they came for the unborn and defenders of them, I said nothing because I saw this as a religious issue not worth fighting for.
When they came for traditional marriage/anti-LGBTQ+ supporters, I said nothing because I did not see how that affected me as a conservative SWM (despite its cost$).
When they came for the evangelicals and all social conservatives, I said nothing because I was only a agnostic fiscal conservative who opposed excessive government spending and regulation.
When they came for all who would not pledge their supreme allegiance and life and fortune to a Leftist government upon whom all are to depend, then there was hardly anyone one left to speak for me.