>>>As a fellow baseball fan only a year younger than me I'm sure you remember Sandy Koufax refusing to pitch a World Series game because it was on Yom Kippur. It was kind of controversial at the time.
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>>>Recently I posed two scenarios to someone.
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>>>Scenario 1: A Jewish doctor in an isolated area is the only one who can treat someone gravely wounded. (Yes, I realize this would be extremely rare, if it ever happened at all). The doctor refuses to do so because it occurs on Yom Kippur, and the person dies.
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>>>Scenario 2: A Christian photographer refuses to provide wedding photography services to a same-gender wedding couple, on the grounds that it violates religious principles.
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>>>While admitting I'm using a bit of the Socratic method here - in either case, can/should the state intervene and force either person into an action? (or permit the seeking of damages afterwards?)
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>>>Kevin
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>>...OR just hire a different photographer who's not an idiotic ass and yer done.
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>That doesn't address the fact that people need their pound of flesh.
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>Hire a new photographer obviously but also gin up the hate mail, harass customers & make a big loud public deal about it. It's the modern version of grabbing the torches & pitchforks.
>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2409639/Sweet-Cakes-Melissa-denied-lesbian-couple-wedding-cake-forced-close-death-threats.html
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>Then sue, of course.

Well the people making death threats are just as dumb as the bible thumpers who won't bake a cake for lesbians. Hey you know what God says - make a cake for couple of lesbians and you burn in hell foreeeever.!! Even so I don't think the cake maker should get away with it either. Hey if that was a male-female black couple and they didn't make the cake cause they're black - that's discrimination. What they did is the same thing - discrimination. Sadly this is a routine problem with bible-thumpers - they're the ones that hold onto their prejudices the longest.