As a paying customer, I would not want to patronize where I was not wanted. What kind of service should I expect if I FORCED someone to do business with me? I don’t want to be eatin’ loogies in my burger. (IYKWIM)
There must be other photo studios in Albuquerque that could and would accommodate them without all the hoopla. But, as we all know - this isn’t about anyone’s “rights” to shop where they want...it’s about control.
But these groups with a cause seek out and create situations to advance their cause. Who knows the motives in this case, but it would not be a shock to learn that they purposely sought a Christian wedding photographer and hoped to be turned down on religious grounds so they could challenge it in court.
Sort of like the activists and the ACLU hunting down every cross and nativity they can find that might make a good law suit to push their phony separation of church and state agenda.