I first found out about gay marriage and homosexuality in 2008. The concept has never occurred to me until I saw prop 8 stuff on TV. I was very opposed to it but in recent years, I have accepted the ruling and don't really care that much if it is legal or not. Personally, I view marriage as between a man and a woman and that won't ever change, but as long I am not forced to do anything against my beliefs, I couldn't care less who you marry, it doesn't' affect me. On other lgbt issues, I don't believe the government should prevent gay people from adopting children, and we should have laws preventing discrimination against lgbt individuals in government employment, state-run adoption agencies, government services, public housing, and public education. No matter your views on gay marriage and homosexuality, I hope we can all agree the government shouldn't discriminate.
On private sector non-discrimination laws, it is a different story. I had never given much thought to whether a business could refuse service because the concept of the government telling a private business who to serve never occurred to me. I just assumed if you didn't want to serve or hire someone, you could just refuse and nothing would happen. When I found out about bakers being forced to provide services to gay weddings, I was shocked and instantly supported their right to refuse service. Back than I was a traditional conservative. Recently, I have become much more socially liberal and libertarian and have decided that I oppose most anti discrimination laws in the private sector. The only exceptions are for laws applying to utilities and mega corporations like Wal-Mart, where discrimination could have a huge impact. If I were in congress, I would not be anti LGBT and wouldn't try to roll back any gay rights we have currently, but I would oppose anti discrimination laws that apply to the private sector such as ENDA or the "Equality Act." In order for me to support them, they would have to be amended do they nly applied to the public sector and possibly very large corporations as well, but this would likely be unnecessary since most big companies are pro gay.
Tell me, do you oppose anti-discrimination laws for minorities?
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