I think there is simply no need any longer for anti-discrimination laws for restaurants, motels, etc. It ain’t the 50s anymore.
“Naming and shaming” and boycotts should be entirely adequate to pressure people to not discriminate. The power of the government should be removed from the equation.
The problem, of course, is that any attempt to do so would be portrayed as wanting to make “discrimination” legal and possibly soon compulsory.
I’m not claiming that we have to accept defeats as irreversible, just that we recognize a defeat when it has happened.
An effective counterattack will be cultural, just as the Left’s assault on traditional values was. As Breitbart said, politics is downstream of culture. Conservatives tend to be uncomfortable with pop culture, so they abandoned it and tried to fight on the political level.
Unaware, or at least not doing anything about, the fact that the very ground on which they stood to fight was being eroded.
You can’t win a battle of culture if you won’t fight. And in the long run you can’t win a political battle unless you first wing the cultural battle.
But the first step is not to make it a goal to pressure people not to make their own decisions--"discriminate" between alternatives, as free people have always done. While, personally, I would certainly not be happy, were I denied employment or a beneficial contract, because I did not agree with someone else's theology; like Voltaire on free speech, I would defend to my last breath the right of anyone to discriminate against me, based on such difference in fundamental values.
Not suggesting that I am the model; only making a point as to my Conservative priorities. The right to discriminate is fundamental; and allowing those with agendas to change our society, to continually chip or shovel it away, is something that I have been fighting since High School.