A lot of people are against government encroaching on personal freedoms, myself included.

I would never discriminate against a person for something they cannot control, but big mommy government telling me I cannot do that lest I be punished leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

It's like people on the left think that western society is so racist that if not for laws stopping people from discriminating, poor black people would be dying in the streets because nobody would hire them, or sell them water, or anything else necessary to live a reasonable life.

It wasn't true back when they had to enact Jim Crow and it isn't true now. So why force people to do something they find religiously condemning? The only reason I can see is that the fears of a hypersensitive lgbqt community and a desire for politicians to be seen as supportive of "minorities" ( the metrics for which, unsurprisingly, are getting higher and higher) leads to the creation of policies not rooted in reality.

I think it will be very interesting where all of these discussions go in the next decade; I think this is the first sign that the politically correct pendulum is starting to swing backward.

I'm very interested in how the left will attempt to balance the religious freedom of socially "protected" religions (like Islam), while ruling out judicial judgements that boil down to "your religion isn't an excuse to not take part in greater society"; how do you think secluded Muslim communities and dangerous garb (burkas, other facial coverings) fit into that? The dance between active discrimination of religion and anti-discrimination of protected social classes and the double standards thereof will be fun to watch.