Majority of Americans support gay rights over religious freedom bills

[Hatshepsut]

... How is that equal and non-prejudiced?

Is a majority always right? In a free society that claims to have a marketplace of ideas, small businesspersons should be able to do business with whom they will, for that matter without having to give a reason for their choices. Of course this is modified for larger firms and those holding monopolies over critical goods; a power company can't refuse to supply electricity to a gay household because of a boss's whim. But in general I don't like either of these two fashionable trends at law: neither homosexuality nor religious credo should be granted special protection under law other than relief from direct persecution.

A constant analogy to the 1960s civil rights movement is made for each new special group. But it's weak. Blacks as a visible minority don't enjoy the option of concealing their status. Unlike for blacks, no history of chattel slavery or Jim Crow attends the other groups, whose members have generally experienced little difficulty in voting and securing employment, housing, or consumer essentials. Although it has been necessary to ban certain kinds of discrimination, we've never defined prejudice itself as a wrong, only that its absence is a virtue.

Adam & Steve are welcome to marry if they want. They should have no trouble finding a cake. I'm a retired boomer and not planning to die too soon.