Editor:
LGBTs are “offended” by the refusal to accept their values by those opposed to them.
Have you heard, “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander?” The road goes both ways. Neither side has to accept the other, just stay in your own lane and don’t crash. Blaring horns are not admired.
Selling cakes or carnations to all customers is one thing, and no one I know of objects to that, but demanding participation in a
ceremony that Christians consider sacred is a form of profanity. Christians should have their right, under constitutional freedom of religion, to draw the line there. To participate thus in a marriage
ceremony is to affirm and approve and bless it. This is not just a financial transaction but a spiritual one, and that is what any religion is – and it is protected.
What’s also offensive is the in-your-face attitude of LGBTs who appear to target Christians. Do Christians go to court because they’re offended? No – but
LGBTs do.
Christians don’t expect unbelievers to live our lifestyle, but just permit us to do so. And don’t demand that we participate in activities so opposed to ours in the name of “tolerance.” How about the LGBTs doing some tolerating of others, without stirring up a fuss? There are other bakers and florists available.
LGBTs have the right to live as they choose, but so do we, the rest of the population.
That is what democracy is supposed to provide: accommodation to differences. It’s “live and let live.” Quietly.
Joan Scofield
Sweet Home