RE: Ministers Threatened with Jail/Fines For Refusing to Officiate at Gay Weddings
October 22, 2014 at 11:30 am
(October 22, 2014 at 11:13 am)Esquilax Wrote:(October 22, 2014 at 10:02 am)Heywood Wrote: I don't like any anti-discrimination laws except those which apply to the government. If a private doctor did not want to operate on me because of the color of my skin, then he should be free to refuse.
Thus putting whole segments of the minority's lives in the hands of the majority. Consider for a moment that bigotry doesn't often occur in single instances, and that the social unacceptability of such discrimination is a large part of stopping it from spreading.
You say that a private doctor should be able to discriminate, but you're being short sighted; what if all such medical care becomes unavailable to a person through discrimination? What if every shop in the area refuses to sell to that person? And before you tell me how farfetched such an idea is, remember just how recent segregation actually was.
A free market would not allow for a large segment of the population to not be served. It takes government interference to make that happen.
