What I mean is, you totally flew off the handle and are way fucking rude in your last comment. Philosophically, I believe what's mine should only be controlled by me. You're pointing at laws that say otherwise, but I'm not taking legally. I'm taking about my personal opinion. Not of what is most effective, but what is most FREE. I recognize that my argument allows people to be discriminated against. Which is why I keep clarifying that I wouldn't do it, and that when the discriminators are exposed, bad things happen to them. You speak of those incidents as if they are anomalies, but the thing is, if people bother to point them out, that kind of thing would happen all the time. And if not, then a gay couple would have to accept that life isn't fair. Hey, I am discriminated against all the time. I deal.

The reasons I can't enumerate? Uhh, I did enumerate: my property. My time. My choice. Because I own it. I don't have to share. And to delve deeper into that, as a matter of personal philosophy, I don't believe people have a right to buy, but people do have a right to earn. So nobody is making me open a bakery, but nobody is making a gay couple but a cake (or pizza). The benefit is freedom. Philosophically, I believe that is more important than the result of such freedom. It's a deeply held conviction, and the reason I asked you what I think of me isn't so that I could be insulted, but rather do that you might try to understand where I'm coming from. I did explain repeatedly that I would not discriminate but I think a poison should be free to conduct his business as he chooses. At the core of my faith is a belief that we are here to be tested, and without the agency to make good or bad decisions, we can't really prove the goodness and growth of our morality. It may be stupid to you because freedom of conscience will allow people with different consciences to do things we don't like. I get that. But it's inoperable to me to maintain that freedom, even if someone else uses it poorly. I don't like that I was repeatedly insulted in trying to make that point clear, that this is all a personal belief not based on history, not bad on efficacy of laws, not based on anything other than the idea that freedom is most important.