Yup. When you demand your rights too vehemently (dare I say, shrilly), the backlash is all your fault. Not the fault of the backlashers, of course. Look at how she was dressed!
I Am No Tivan, for someone who claims to be disgusted by bigots you do a hell of a good impersonation of one.
You can’t force a florist to sell flowers and no one is claiming that you can. “We’re not going to sell any flowers and you can’t make us!!” isn’t much of a business model for a florist shop, though and probably would not greatly impress the loan officer at your local bank.
But, if this amusingly hypothetical gay-fearing florist ( really…did Marcus Bachman decide he had a new calling? ) decides it might be a smart move to actually sell flowers and opens up a store, he doesn’t get to pick and choose who gets flowers based on where their penis has been, just as he doesn’t get to turn away customers who lack a penis or have one that is the wrong color.
This is true even if the florist belongs to a fringe Christian sect that is really super-obsessed with penises and what people do with them (wow, I’m really channeling Marcus Bachmann today ).
I was raised a mainstream Christian and the prime tenet seemed to be that making judgments was reserved for God and you were supposed to shut up and make nice even if you suspected the person you were dealing with would be the on the wrong side of the Lord come Judgment Day…also, I don’t remember the Bible saying anything about casting men that lay with other men out of your shops or any commandment that says thou shall not selleth thou cakes and roses to men that spill their seed with other men.
It only makes you a certain kind of gay. Trimming or au natural is by far more common. (not that I’ve seen that many…yea that’s the story I think I’ll go with)