RE: Being gay is a fetish.
April 24, 2015 at 11:32 am
(This post was last modified: April 24, 2015 at 12:25 pm by Hatshepsut.)
(April 24, 2015 at 10:17 am)robvalue Wrote: It is the gay community's business, though. If you allow one person to make a blatantly discriminatory code of practice, you must allow everyone...
No, you needn't allow everyone. You pass a law when harms done require redress. You don't allow a monopoly like the phone company to refuse anyone who pays their bill. But is our society going on a crusade to demand that all hew to Political Correctness? Germany is on this path. They may well have more reason for this than we do, given their experiences with Nazism, so I won't presume to prescribe for them. But just because they do it over there doesn't mean we should do it on our side of the pond. Laws forbidding citizens to hold prejudicial thoughts and laws which infringe on their freedom of association militate against liberty, and I think the state needs compelling reason for any such law it passes.
I doubt there is a crisis of wedding cakes that urges us regulate the local bakeries.
(BTW you're not coming off as aggressive in any way;
'tis no shame to toot your side's horn.
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