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>What about a small Muslim bakery that doesn't want to cater for a gay event, quoting passages like Hadith 38:4447 when challenged? Should they be called hateful with the state empowered to force the bigots to comply?

I've often wondered what will happen if we see that.

I've mentioned several times that about a year or so ago, Memories Pizza (a little pizza shop in Indiana) was asked if they would cater for a gay wedding. The employee was a bit confused by the question (c'mon, how many people serve pizza at weddings???), but replied along the lines of, "anyone can come in here and we'll serve them, but I doubt we would cater a gay wedding". (Or words very similar to that).

The reaction was VICIOUS - they received death threats and they received a large number of fake phone orders that disrupted their business to the point where they had to close their shop for a period of time.

This what the far left does when they want to manufacture outage - they show the world, "Here is what we will do to you if we don't get our way...here is what we will do to you if you take a position we don't like".

This entire debate places me in a tough spot - I have no problem with gay marriage, I don't give a flip about a person's orientation, and I grow tired of the religious right's preoccupation with gay rights. However, I equally detest the far political left for their tactics.