"Jim, when I consider issues, I try to think about how I would react if I were forced to do something I considered offensive "
Sorry Joe - you can apply this to anything, say, lke serving a black man or a Catholic to some strange people - a line has to be drawn and that line must protect a significant minority (at least, we believe it is a minority - prejudice makes it virtually impossible to know how many gays there actually are)
Why should people who find black people offensive not be allowed to discriminate against them/ - that seems to be the logic of your argument.
Our laws have moved, albeit reluctantly, to attempting to curb prejudice toward races, communities and those that are deemed to be 'different' and therefore offensive.
Even in soemwhat redneck Northern Ireland, the behaviour of this businessman serving the general public has been deemed unacceptable - well done them
Jim Carroll