Who the fuck are Bastian and Parker? You reference them in the first blockquote but you forgot to tell us who they are and why we give a shit about whether or not they fit. I assume we’re supposed to read the original WSJ article which is what I should have done instead of wasting my time here? FAIL.

What a douche-nozzle.  Take a “light touch” when the right people are making money.

The free market is a textbook construct. For one thing, it cannot correct for when the government is the service provider, but that’s a specific case and not this one. More importantly, consumers are already protected by other regulations that forbid a business from selling harmful products or other harmful…

No, two wrongs do not make a right, but neither does it prevent you from calling out what is wrong.

If the business is claiming “conscience” does it matter whether it’s religious or political in nature?  Why is so much power given to something that a person can just make up in their head?  Neither is an adequate excuse for being a knob.

Did you read all of the negative comments (that have now been removed) about this restaurant?  I didn’t either, and I have a hard time believing none of them were calling for the restaurant to be shut down or accidentally burned down.  People get nasty.

Or I could be trying to understand what’s going on in the brains of some people. I generally disapprove of a business being allowed to reject business or kick someone out who isn’t being disruptive or harming the business in any way. I don’t see how baking a cake for a gay couple, dispensing birth control, or issuing…

So if a minority doesn’t like living in a town where bad things regularly happen to them, and posting negative reviews on Yelp isn’t working, then they’re just supposed to move to a place where things are all better?  I don’t think I agree with the “market” approach in all cases.

You might be thinking of a different case than I am, because the supreme court set aside the ruling against the bakery and did not decide the overall issue of whether businesses can hide behind the big book of fairy tales when turning away customers.  The issue is very much still alive in the ‘thoughts and prayers’ of…

So you’re saying religion is the only basis for conscience?

I get what you’re saying, but I don’t think hypocritical is the right word when pointing out someone else’s hypocrisy.  Two wrongs don’t make a right, but that doesn’t mean you can’t call out a wrong, you know?

You’re absolutely right. Whinging like a little bitch, but not suing, is the high road.

I guess, but there are so many more hateful and hurtful ways to use religion against other people. It either backwards or upside down; I can't figure which.

Tolerance such as not forcing a bakery to make a cake, a pharmacy to dispense birth control, or a county clerk to issue a marriage license? You’re either a hypocrite or you don’t understand what the word “tolerance” means.

Why wouldn’t Trump supporters be in favor of this? They don’t want a bakery to be forced to make a cake, a pharmacy to dispense birth control, or a public servant to do her job against her conscience. Why is this different?

Winner winner, chicken dinner. I didn’t know if anyone would catch that. :D

Re: Rotary - I mentioned how the sandwich block leaked.

Before a passport photo, I cram myself into a kindergarten-size wooden desk chair for 36 hours, then have someone lose all my clothes.  That way, the picture looks just like I look after taking a trip that requires a passport.

From the Owners Manual:

This guy knows. Apart from the rotor seals, the block itself leaked like a sieve. 5 vertical slices, like a sandwich stood on end, that had to compress horizontally might have looked fine to a designer, but they were a nightmare in reality and I imagine the engineers who had to build it probably thought they were…