“If you’re a print shop and you are a gay man, should you be forced to print ‘God Hates Fags’ for the Westboro Baptist Church because they hold those signs up?”former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
Enjoy that slice of victory cake. It tastes like…What the hell is that
J.D. Tuccille|Apr. 6, 2015 10:12 am
I hoped the culture-war silliness might have ended by this week, but this morning the headlines contain the tale of a pediatrician unwilling to treat the child of a lesbian couple, and yet another successful fundraiser for a business (this one a florist) facing official sanctions after refusing to sell wedding flowers to same-sex customers. So lets talk about why it’s a bad idea to force people who don’t like you to do business with you.
One of my favorite movie scenes is from The Pope of Greenwich Village. A New York City traffic cop turns a neighborhood against him by towing every car in sight and shaking down a local bar for free drinks.
What are they going to do about it, right?
What they’re going to do is slip horse laxative into his drink at the bar—and then lock the door behind him when he goes outside to get back to work. Hilarity ensues in the street.
https://reason.com/blog/2015/04/06/why-making-people-who-hate-you-serve-you
Oh, for a minute I thought this was about having Paul, Albert, and Gwenn serving the residents of Ridgewood