I read a very interesting post today written by a fb friend. She is outspokenly left-leaning, and what gave me so much pause while reading this post was her prior posts from maybe a year ago stating that "the baker should bake the cake for the gay couple".
Remember that story??? A gay couple was refused service for their wedding cake by the owner of a business who makes cakes. Their social lifestyle went against his religious beliefs so he decided he did not want to make a cake for them.
She, and others, demanded that this business owner bake the cake for them. Well, it went to court, and he won. But what's so important here is that there are 2 camps you can be in when it comes to things like this...
#1. Business owners MUST serve EVERYONE who comes in.
OR
#2. Business owners have the RIGHT to REFUSE service to ANYONE.
Would you believe me if I said this woman is in both camps???
How can this be? Well, when YOU are the arbiter for EVERYONE ELSE, it's easy. Based on YOUR superior judgement, discrimination is subjective at the whims of the arbiter.
YOU CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS.
Although she probably doesn't even know it, she is being discriminatory. Albeit she thinks she is doing good, but as you've probably heard a thousand times before, "the road to hell is paved with good intentions".
Either you think businesses should be able to decide who they do business with (discriminate whom they disagree with) or businesses must sell to everyone.
She believes the baker should make the cake, but on the same hand, she thinks that employees can refuse service to people who don't share in her fear of getting sick.
Unfortunately, she can't have her cake and eat it too.
