Victoria Miller owns W.W. Bridal Boutique in Bloomsburg, Pa. A lesbian couple asked her to provide wedding gowns. She declined saying she did not approve of same sex marriage on religious grounds.
Rather than just nodding and taking their business elsewhere as most would do if offended by a store, they launched a hate campaign forcing Ms. Miller to take down her social media sites and hire a lawyer.
Some ignorant types are going to say that discriminating on these matters is the same as discrimination against blacks in the Jim Crow era. It’s not. The Jim Crow discrimination was mandated by law. Jim Crow was big government that prevented free enterprise i.e. the opening of a store that would serve all to compete with the white-only one.
What Ms. Millier did is no different than a black baker refusing to decorate a cake with a Confederate flag to celebrate the founding of the Ku Klux Klan.
Nobody is taking about stopping the opening of a bridal shop to cater to same sex couples.
H8ers will H8 though whether they be white supremacists or gay activists.
My kids say I’m backwards because I think that your choice to have a relationship with someone of the same sex as you is just that…your choice. I ask what’s next? Someone wants to marry their dog? How about sex with underage kids? What’s the big deal…it’s only child pornography, right? Let all the child molesters out of jail…anything goes, folk!
It’s no longer a matter of live and let live. You must give approval or else be considered a bad, bad, bad person.
The only word for that is intolerance.
And logic is no longer allowed when discouraging social destructive behavior: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10354864