The difference between what you're saying and what the previous poster is saying is that you are talking about a state of being, while the previous poster is talking about an action. The muslim that doesnt want to sell qurans to the book burners and the caterer that doesnt want to cater for a gay wedding aren't discriminating based on the person themselves (race, gender, age, sexuality, etc), but on the person's actions, namely, burning qurans or holding gay weddings. That distinction may not matter to you, but it is a distinction that underlies the free exercise of religion rules that the government has made/followed in the past, and it matters very much to a whole lot of people, and it opens the door to even more restrictions in the future, and it pushes business even further into the national and legal focus as being what the country values in importance, trumping things which the constitution and laws of the country formerly protected as sacrosanct. That is what most bothers me about this whole debate on the "against" side, and in many other areas of law and advocacy and debate—what seems to matter is the economics of an issue, whether it is development projects or the environment or proper reporting or lobbying or whatever, commerce always seems to trump nearly everything, and this is just another example. And why in this case does it only have to be if the person has a religious objection to something. What if the baker just thinks that it is a stupid and asthetically unpleasing table arrangement and doesnt want to have any part of it in the name of art? What if the baker doesnt want to do it because it is tuesday? It only really matters if it is like a water utility or something. Who cares if a baker doesnt want to bake a cake for my wedding? Fuck that guy and the horse he rode in on, and more power to him for making a choice as a free American. In a similar situation I wouldnt want to serve a bunch of Raytheon executives. Are they going to go after people for rejecting other life choices that people have made next? I dunno if anybody else has thought about all this, maybe I'm just crazy.