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Re: Company’s ban against gay weddings is akin to ‘white applicants only’ sign, judge
These things seem worthy goals to me as well. Like many other things in society, making laws to enforce these things is a bad idea. The law itself IS arbitrary. There is an arbitrary list of groups with special protections. Others not on the list do not have the same protections and are thus discriminated against.
Really? So if I reserve a room at a hotel in Gatlinburg, show up with my wife and kids to check in and am told, "sorry we don't rent to niggers/fags/Jews" that's not dehumanizing?
And all we're asking of that hotel owner is to treat blacks etc. the same as all the other customers who walk in the door. Doesn't seem very dehumanizing to me, actually, or a particularly onerous demand on his labor and property - perform the same amount of labor for that black couple as the white couples before and after, and get paid an identical amount for those services.
I guess I can accept that we have some "right" to our labor and property, but like all our other rights it's NOT absolute, which you recognize, and can be abridged to serve the public interest, and having a society in which we can all fully participate without regard to arbitrary characteristics like race, religion, sexual orientation, gender seems a worthy goal, and a sufficient basis for abridging my right to discriminate on that basis.
These things seem worthy goals to me as well. Like many other things in society, making laws to enforce these things is a bad idea. The law itself IS arbitrary. There is an arbitrary list of groups with special protections. Others not on the list do not have the same protections and are thus discriminated against.