Commentary
How quickly laws that supposedly protect someone’s “right” to do something become laws that force other people to participate, whether they morally agree or not.
We’ve especially seen this with same-sex marriage. We decide that any two adults who love each other have a right to sanctify their union with government-recognized wedlock. That’s nice, we might sentimentally say. But suddenly, wedding photographers, wedding-cake bakers, florists, and even people who design personalized websites telling the stories of the two parties’ falling in love are required to bake the cake, design the website, and so forth, even when such actions violate their religious principles about the nature of marriage. The alternatives: face huge fines and civil judgments or get out of the wedding business altogether….