There are millions of very small towns in America. Many of them are in states that passed laws against gay marriage. Many of those states have many small towns that have only one store. Only one gas station. Only one post office. What happens if a gay person in one of those towns doesn't have a store that will service them?
Move. You're surrounded by people who hate you to the core. Why would you want to live in such a place?
A store shouldn't be able to deny service to any paying and law abiding person.
So, if I own a bar, I should have no right to refuse service to a drunk person? If I own a gun shop, I should have no right to refuse service to someone who is rambling about how he wants to kill his wife? If I own a hotel, I should have no right to refuse service to someone who appears to be engaged in human trafficking? I have no right to refuse service to someone who is being belligerent, abusive to my employees, and/or disrupting the operation of my business?
So that gay person has to either move to a city or town that does have stores that will service them or that gay person dies of starvation.
There are two problems with everything you are saying. The first is that you continue to argue from fantasy what-ifs that don't reflect reality. You are envisioning a world where every single individual in town so passionately hates the one local homosexual that they want him/her to die. That's absurd.
The second problem is that you've failed to grasp my deeper point, which is that you can't legislatively end homophobia. Even if laws require homophobes to do business with gay people against their own volition, they're still going to be homophobes. But now, their hatred is going to grow deeper. It's better to let society turn them into social lepers. Let society turn their backs on those businesses, let those people feel the pain when they are driven to the brink of bankruptcy when nobody wants to do business with them. That is the only real chance of those people having an actual change of heart.
I didn't read your whole post. The first sentence was so discriminating and ridiculous that I just couldn't go farther.
How is a person going to move if they can't buy gas for their car? The gas station won't sell them gas and they have no other way to get gas. In fact, the person probably doesn't even have a car since no one in their town will sell him one.
Forcing someone to move because they're gay and people won't sell goods or services to them is a violation of the gay person's liberty, freedom, civil and constitutional rights.
I always am sad to see Americans who hate our nation and what it stands for as much to say that certain people don't have the same rights as everyone else and those certain people should move to obtain rights everyone else has.
It's discrimination. I guess you ignored the part of the constitution that says everyone is created equal and everyone must be treated equally under the law.
You might want to go back and read that document. It might clear up all your confusion of what's legal and what's not legal in America.
Finally, I'm disgusted that any American would actually force another American to move only because their civil and constitutional rights are being illegally violated. Do you understand that your suggestion is illegal and unconstitutional?
