Interesting.
So how in the hell would you know what an ordinary gay or bisexual person in America needs from their society?
Repression, in all forms, flies in the face of freedom.
Curious
So would it count as repression if I went into a Christian establishment demanded they cater to my sexual orientation, then threatened them with legal and financial ruin if they didn't?
Would I not be trampling on their freedoms too?
Not if they are operating a public business.
Unless while you were placing your order as a customer does in public businesses you hindered their right to attend the place of worship of their choice.
Sigh.
One is prohibited by law, the other isn't.
If the Constitution says I have a right to express my religion in the 1st Amendment, wouldn't that make public accommodation laws unconstitutional? As in, prohibitive of free expression of religion? Business owners must accommodate the public, but the public needn't not accommodate the religious beliefs of the business owner. Is that fair?
From where I sit, the laws crafted to give equal rights to gay people took rights away from Christians wanting to express their faith through entrepreneurial means.
If a law, in spite of its good intent, stops me from practicing my faith when and where I choose to, that is repression.
I posit that public accommodation laws are repressive.