Homosexuals "wrecking" Christian careers

[Coffee Jesus]

People do have the right not to be discriminated against for such things as race, gender, and religion as long as they are not pertinate to the task or service at hand. I mean, one should be allowed to not hire a black man as an actor if you are looking for someone to play the part of Ronald Reagan in a movie. Sexual orientation is one of these attributes for which people have a right not to be discriminated.

When you do something such as run a business or become a doctor, you are leaving the realm where individual freedoms reign and into a social contract of sorts, because offering goods and services is a social construct, not an individual one. If you wish to refrain from providing goods and services to certain people, that is your right, but only if you refrain from providing goods and services to all people.

You don't want to sell cakes to gay people? Then don't sell cakes.

It isn't a contract at all if you force the terms on one party. Contracts are something agreed upon by all parties involved. "Social Contract" is just a euphemism used by the left in place of governmental edict. It is a word designed to give legitimacy to their imposition of a particular world view. The south, prior to the Civil war, could have claimed a social contract justified slavery....but we all know imposed "Social Contracts" are an affront to individual liberty.

If you want to sell cakes to gay people....open up your own bakery. The government might stop you....but people like me will not.

The government ensures your freedom to be who you are by protecting you from discrimination on that basis. With this comes the expectation that you will not discriminate against others for being who they are. If we adopted your principles, everybody would live in fear that being themself might cost them a job, a doctor, an insurance provider, etc. We wouldn't be here talking to you on this forum. Perhaps you wouldn't even be on here condoning discrimination.