# Should Mom-and-Pops That Forgo Gay Weddings Be Destroyed? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 3, 2015, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mom-and-pops-that-forgo-gay-weddings-be-destroyed/716716 "2015-04-03T16:37:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![Weeping\_Wyvern](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@Weeping\_Wyvern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weeping_Wyvern)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mom-and-pops-that-forgo-gay-weddings-be-destroyed/716716/41 "2015-04-03T22:26:20Z")
> [@SpoilerVirgin](#): > > They don’t want to have bigots cater their wedding; they want the right to the same level of service as everyone else. Does it also baffle you why African-Americans in Greensboro wanted to eat at Woolworth’s lunch counter when management was so clearly prejudiced against them? They wanted to be treated with dignity, as human beings, and that’s what same-sex couples want. People eat lunch every day. Regular meals are a basic human need. Wedding parties, however, usually only occur once in a lifetime. I think it’s extremely problematic to put them in the same category when it comes to discrimination law. I can see why a hungry homosexual would want a sandwich from a homophobe. But see no reason why a homosexual couple would want a homophobe to serve a hundred sandwiches at their wedding party. If I knew a caterer disapproved of my wedding, I wouldn’t even let him serve me if he wanted to, let alone force him to. Such a request is not a dignified one, and accordingly doesn’t deserve to be treated with dignity. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-mom-and-pops-that-forgo-gay-weddings-be-destroyed/716716)._