Comments on: Desperate politics prove victory is close /opinion/soapbox-opinion/desperate-politics-prove-victory-is-close/119967 Setting Australia’s LGBTI agenda since 1979 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:18:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Chuck Anziulewicz /opinion/soapbox-opinion/desperate-politics-prove-victory-is-close/119967#comment-137393 Mon, 10 Mar 2014 15:18:17 +0000 https://starobserver.com.au/?p=119967#comment-137393 A business is not a church. It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a bakery or a restaurant, a photo studio or a factory. They aren’t in the business of providing spiritual guidance or enforcing moral doctrines. They are there to turn a profit. As such, they are obligated to abide by prevailing civil rights laws, whether those laws protect people from discrimination based on race, religion, or sexual orientation.

Conservative columnist Erick Erickson came to the defense of Christian business owners: “Committed Christians believe in a doctrine of vocation. They believe that their work is a form of ministry. Through their work, they can share the gospel and glorify God.”

Oh, and also rake in as much money as possible. You can wax poetic all you want about “glorifying God,” but at the end of the day these businesses wouldn’t exist were it not for the profit motive.

Should a restaurant owner be able to refuse service to Blacks because he has “moral objections” to race-mixing? Should an employer be able to fire a Muslim employee because he wants to run “a nice Christian workplace”? And if a Christian florist agrees to provide flower arrangements at a Muslim couple’s wedding, does it mean he is necessarily endorsing Islam?

If the answer to these questions is NO, what justification is there refusing service to a Gay couple who wish to get a wedding cake or celebrate their anniversary in a restaurant?

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