The other problem is that this "just go and find another X to serve you," line of reasoning fails to take into account the point of anti-discrimination law, which is to protect everyone. What if there isn't another X? If you're in a small town within a state and the only doctor in town refuses to see you because you're gay, what do you do? Move? What if you're in a large but conservative town, and everyone refuses to see you because you're gay? Move? Does any of that seem reasonable?
Now, the standard objection from bigots is to loftily assert that if everyone around you hates you, you should want to move, but as usual their oversimplifications fail to take into account that this isn't always a financially or otherwise viable idea. The purpose of anti-discrimination laws are to safeguard everyone's ability to obtain goods and services, as human beings need to to survive. The law needs to take into account the extremes of its own implications, and the fact is that these religious freedom laws cause harm to others for no real reason. As a provider of a good or service, you aren't required to approve of your customers, and I guarantee that every single one of those buyers has at least one thing bigots like that would disapprove of; the gay thing is an arbitrary, self serving line, baselessly drawn, and there is simply no reason for the law to kowtow to it, beyond the shared ideology of the lawmakers.
Now, the standard objection from bigots is to loftily assert that if everyone around you hates you, you should want to move, but as usual their oversimplifications fail to take into account that this isn't always a financially or otherwise viable idea. The purpose of anti-discrimination laws are to safeguard everyone's ability to obtain goods and services, as human beings need to to survive. The law needs to take into account the extremes of its own implications, and the fact is that these religious freedom laws cause harm to others for no real reason. As a provider of a good or service, you aren't required to approve of your customers, and I guarantee that every single one of those buyers has at least one thing bigots like that would disapprove of; the gay thing is an arbitrary, self serving line, baselessly drawn, and there is simply no reason for the law to kowtow to it, beyond the shared ideology of the lawmakers.
"YOU take the hard look in the mirror. You are everything that is wrong with this world. The only thing important to you, is you." - ronedee
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