I didn't say I wasn't replying I said I'm not debating. Drop all the ad hominems and fallacies, if you're not going to debate stop pretending otherwise. I already debated the anti-fascism, equal rights side of this topic in this thread. You can go back and look or you can start a new thread, but stop pretending you want to debate if you're not going to. I've answered every question you've thrown at me AFAIK and am more than willing to start over in a less cluttered, one on one thread without the open reign of members to get in the middle.
Also, there's a difference between me calling your position disgusting or absurd (maybe you should look up the reduction to absurdity) and you calling me stupid and childish.
I called the argument stupid and the insults childish.
I posted today with:
I don't have that right at my job. An employee can be fired for expressing her opinion at work. Particularly if that opinion is offensive, but even if it isn't or if she doesn't think it is.
Businesses aren't people, despite recent Supreme Court rulings. They don't have the right to discriminate, the law specifically prohibits it. And it's been a net improvement to the country.
No one can ever say what they would do in a small town if businesses were allowed to refuse to serve "them" for whatever population they are. Imagine it as an unofficial sundown law... why is that OK?
Feel free to debate if you want to, but don't pretend I'm not interested, when you're the one who says he has no respect for me, states that I cannot grasp something because I disagree with it - calling me stupid - and your first response was "whoa holocaust" again.
You attempted to reduce to absurdity and I pointed out it was both absurd and that my argument was internally consistent and a principled position. You repeatedly misrepresent my position and those of others agreeing as "the government forcing a poor little old lady who survived the holocaust to serve a dead war criminal." When my position is consistent as, no business is allowed to discriminate. That means sometimes Anti-semites walk into a Jewish Deli. That means sometimes gay couples come to buy a cake from a Christian dude. That means sometimes the guy who advocates for the name "Redskins" walks into a native owned store.
It's not the government forcing any one person to do something, it's the responsibilities of the business owner to not discriminate- and thus to impart and enforce that with their employees, if any. That is already the law of the land in such states that include gay couples as a protected class, and is growing to become one nationally.
Black people in America lived in towns that had unofficial sundown laws (not to mention official ones), that's not a strawman. Chipping away the protections like this law does, means that that could happen again. Why is it so ridiculous to imagine that no one in town might serve YOU because of your faith or your skin tone? Or is it just that hard to figure out what to do?
