(August 25, 2015 at 6:00 pm)Anima Wrote: If I might paraphrase your very statement:
Oh no, some fucking gays might lose their business. Serves them right for being gay.
Newsflash: It's not persecution to not want to do business with someone or hire someone because they want an asshole.
I get that you're a bigot, and are really upset that you're on the wrong side of history (as bigots always are), but it's definitely persecution to refuse to hire someone on the basis of their preferred gender. That's pretty much textbook definition of persecution.
You can't refuse to hire someone just because they're black. You can refuse to hire someone because they're a member of the KKK. You can't refuse to hire someone just because they're gay. You can refuse to hire someone because they're a shithead who thinks gay people are icky (or possibly are worried cocks are secretly delicious)