5 Big Fat Myths About LGBT Discrimination Laws
by Nathaniel Blake, The Federalist:
Remember how LGBT activists promised that same-sex marriage would harm no one and infringe on no one’s freedoms? They lied.
Christians and other nonconformists now face financial ruin and even imprisonment if they decline to participate in promoting and celebrating same-sex wedding ceremonies. Consider baker Jack Phillips and florist Barronelle Stutzman, who faithfully serve LGBT customers in the ordinary course of business, balking only at custom work that conflicts with their deeply held religious convictions. For this, the LGBT left seeks to destroy their businesses.
The Supreme Court has now taken up Jack’s case, to decide whether the government can force artists to create against their will, and whether it can compel religious dissenters and other nonconformists to participate in promoting and celebrating ceremonies they abhor.
As the duplicity of this shift from “live and let live” rhetoric to compulsory participation in same-sex wedding celebrations has become clear, LGBT activists and allies have responded with further misinformation and deception, this time about the nature and purpose of the anti-discrimination laws being misused to target religious dissenters like Jack and Barronelle. The general line is something like this: you can believe whatever you want, but if you go into business you have to serve everyone equally in all circumstances.
This claim is entirely false. It misrepresents the reality and purpose of anti-discrimination laws and ignores constitutional rights. Although there is significant variation between local, state, and federal anti-discrimination laws, none of these laws require, or could require, all business to serve everyone equally all the time. Here are five myths about anti-discrimination law—and the facts.
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