A minister refused to marry my husband and myself. He didn’t like the fact that we co-habitated before marriae. The next minister would only marry us if we agreed to a month’s couples counseling and prayer.
Hubby is an agnostic, so we found someone else.
It *never* occurred to me that we had a right to force anyone to marry us - under any circumstances. Because we didn’t. It took about a week to find the right match for our circumstances. Neither of us were offended at any point. They had their rules and we had lines that we wouldn’t cross. Being turned away because we’d ‘lived in sin’ - that didn’t make a lot of sense to me. I would think that a minister would want to make it right.
Whatever. It wasn’t that big of a deal.
Now that I think about it, I’ve had a masseur turn me away because of a previous spinal surgery, a pedicurist turn me away because she thought that an allergic reaction was a fungal infection (she was wrong), a dentist kick me out of his office because I cried when he gave me the shots, a man refuse to sell me a gun because I ‘looked too young’ and didn’t have enough training...
My daughter was just turned down by two photographers - one because she didn’t have the right ‘look’ (for photos that she’s paying for...??) and another because she didn’t ‘do’ old timey pin-up style photos. (She thought they were trashy.)
People turn down business all the time for a variety of reason. So a person keeps shopping until they find someone who will do business with them.