To the editor: I’m wondering if the LGBTQ+ neighborhood realizes that the Supreme Courtroom ruling in favor of a web site designer who didn’t need to create wedding ceremony websites for homosexual {couples} can work in our favor as effectively. (“How the ripple impact of the Supreme Courtroom’s 303 Artistic determination may swamp civil rights,” Opinion, July 12)
As a homosexual man, I’m all the time involved if the companies the place I spend my cash are supportive of my neighborhood. Now that the bigots and non secular extremists can reject my enterprise resulting from who I’m, I can know who they’re and keep away from them as effectively.
Sadly, this ruling additionally provides to the continuing division of American individuals, which I’m involved will result in the tip of this nation as we all know it.
R. Anthony Foster, Oceanside
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To the editor: Why isn’t it my proper as a enterprise proprietor to decide on to not promote to somebody? As a personal enterprise proprietor, I ought to be allowed to deal — or not — with whom I please.
If I run a publicly owned firm, then maybe I must be working beneath extra laws. Maybe there are industries that ought to have particular guidelines — corresponding to actual property and monetary providers — to attempt to degree taking part in area.
However significantly, who needs to purchase a marriage cake or bouquet or lease a tuxedo from an individual who doesn’t need to do enterprise with them?
And by the best way, what sort of “discrimination” is there apart from that based mostly on private beliefs? If a personal enterprise proprietor chooses to not serve a possible buyer, that selection will all the time hinge on some private perception. Possibly I don’t like a buyer carrying white after Memorial Day.
Mark Driskill, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: The right way to clarify the, effectively, biblical deluge of latest Supreme Courtroom selections breaching our democracy’s venerable church-state wall?
Contemplate how Christian conservatives lament their steadily fading affect. Over the past 50 years, based on the Pew Analysis Heart, the proportion of Individuals who determine as Christian has dropped from 90% to 64%.
With the excessive courtroom’s conservative Christians forming a super-majority since 2020, they’ve eagerly taken on all kinds of doubtful “spiritual freedom” circumstances. They reliably have dominated in favor of the pious plaintiffs, typically with contorted authorized reasoning.
Thus the excessive courtroom’s sanctimonious justices impose theological conceits on nonbelievers, unconcerned that such an ungodly stratagem constitutes a grave constitutional sin. Let’s pray this tack fails to sluggish the regular improve in free-thinking Individuals.
Gary Dolgin, Santa Monica
