Your opinions are perfectly valid, even if I might disagree - my belief firmly is that the world gets better with more participation - not less. Particularly h

Your opinions are perfectly valid, even if I might disagree - my belief firmly is that the world gets better with more participation - not less. Particularly here in the states, if we could get 90% of the voters who show up for the general to show up in the primary, the results of elections would look different in general. Even as a gay person, I'm generally anti-authoritarian to an extreme - I dont think you can legislate politeness or ethics, that said, my belief, quite firmly is if you're operating any kind of public accommodation, you waive certain rights by doing so. I cant dictate to individuals that they accept me, I can reasonably dictate that they tolerate my presence in the public sphere. What this works out to is in my eyes if people operate a facility where the general public might dwell, sell to the general public, or employ people outside of close family, they have to follow some modicum of equality. If people dont want to do that, they dont have to do those things. I'll note that leads whole kinds of self employment wide open to folks too. Rights are not absolutes either those to demand tolerance or to be intolerant, much of whats wrong with the states is people treating all rights as absolutes.