re: Catholic couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host same-sex ‘wedding’

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I missed the earlier trich analogy. I have to admit, that's a good one that as a business owner I have no good answer for. Except maybe one: I wouldn't be "infecting" anyone regardless of my reasons for denying service, especially when the couple could get married at many other places in the same locale. But I do admit the "private property" argument took a big hit here.

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This young buck has got a few tricks up his sleeve, old man.

Now I can actually get to the higher level discussions as to why the "why not just used the one down the road" argument isn't legally acceptable. Unless you can see that's inherently the same as "why don't just use the water fountain down the road, this one is for whites only". Separate but equal is inherently unequal. Of course all of this could be avoided if you could find a legitimate reason to not get them married other than them being gay. They are simply renting your venue. Their gay marriage dollars are the same jewish marriage dollars or hindu marriage dollars, or interacial marriage dollars, or atheist marriage dollars.