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7. While governments have the duty to treat everyone equally under the law, private individuals should be able to make their own decisions on whom to do business with and how—on religious or any other grounds. Gay photographers and bakers shouldn’t be forced to work Southern Baptist celebrations, Jews shouldn’t be forced to work Nazi rallies, environmentalists shouldn’t be forced to work job fairs in logging communities, and pacifists shouldn’t be forced to work NRA conventions.
This is a great example of cherry picking one's examples to make your point seem nicer. One can affirm this principle or not. But the consequence of that principle is also examples like racists should be allowed to refuse blacks as customers, employees, etc. The examples we get however are things like jews being forced to work for nazi rallies....lol. Admittedly, it is a standard tactic to present examples that make your points seem nice and ignore those that don't. But this is a relatively huge glossing over the most obvious of examples that cast the point is much, much less appealing light.
Incidentally, this article is much closer to what I would think is the "standard" libertarian response (in contrast to my surprise in the way aaron interpreted the bill as an increase in government).
