Sorry, gays are, under the law, a protected group.
Republicans are not.
Actually, they are not really a protected group. Lost in all of these media contrived nonsense is the fact that homosexuals have never been able to meet the basic three pronged test for a suspect class entitled to legal protections. Homosexuals have had thirty some odd years and one of the richest and most influential lobbies ever but they have never tried to pursue Thats because they know they would never be able to succeed. Instead they agitate in the courts of public opinion and get weak willed politicians to simply declare them a member of a suspect class. Everyone is so busy falling all over themselves to prove they are tolerant that they completely miss the the fact that they are facilitating special treatment of homosexuality which just exacerbates the problem.
How can it be legal to have ‘protected’ and by implication ‘unprotected’ groups under the law? Does not the Constitution require ‘equal protection’ under the law?
Federal employees in black robes are lawless tyrants that have overthrown the law and this concept of ‘protected group’ is yet anther example of how and why.
As for the issue at hand it seems yet anther cause of leftist being completely blind in their selfish definition of what is ‘offensive’ They have no concept of how deeply offensive sodomite mocking of marriage is to a good christian, or really anything who is honestly married.
If a business has not the right to choose whom they do business with or what kind of services they provide, then they really aren’t in business at all.
As far as bigotry goes, what people think is not and cannot ever be regarded as the legitimate domain of the law.
Frankly freedom of thought is even more fundamental than freedom of speech, and that includes necessarily ‘bigoted’ thoughts and speech.
For thoses in power to even try to shut down any speech much less thought because some find it ‘objectionable’ or even by some stretch of the imagination ‘unfair’ is a supremely arrogant, and ironically bigoted act in itself by the state officials making and enforcing said edicts.
After-all they they not the backer decided what ideas were acceptable not only for themselves but enforced upon everyone else as well. That is the very definition of bigotry: “Intolerance toward those who hold different opinions from oneself”
OK, should a gay musician be forced to perform at a wedding at the Westboro Baptist Church?