The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative-majority ruling letting certain businesses refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages could impact an array of customers beyond LGBT people, according to the court's liberal justices. But experts were divided over how far this ripple effect could spread.
  • Whirlybird
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    11 months ago

    You can’t and shouldn’t force a private business to do business with someone they don’t want to. People that get refused service might not like it, but that’s the way it is.

    If you disagree with someone being refused a website because it’s an LGBT themed one, ask yourself this - would you be ok with someone being refused a nazi themed website? If yes then congratulations, you agree that people shouldn’t be compelled to do business with people they don’t want to.

    If I offer a service I get to choose who I provide the service to. This “slippery slope” has existed forever. You can’t force someone to take a job that they don’t want to, and realistically you wouldn’t want them doing that job if you were the customer. If I was forced to make a website for someone I don’t want to for a topic I don’t want to, whatever it might be - flat earthers for example - I’d be handing over an intentionally absolutely shithouse site that didn’t work, and I’d be charging them 10x my normal rate.