I just read an article on this. It's fake. The whole thing was a sham used to push this through the court. There was no web designer or gay couple. I thought this was wierd when I read it, because:
- How could some petty matter make it that high up?
- How could this ever actually happen in real life, when the business can say 'oh we're sorry we can't take on another job right now.' and avoid any costly legal proceedings??? For that matter, what customer is going to hold a business legally accountable to do work? Wouldn't they just like.. find someone else who will do the work?
- A business turning down paid work in this economy? Totally BS
I don't see really an issue with this, because in principle, any business can turn down work and not give a reason, or give a BS reason, so... nothing changed in the real world. There's plenty of other people more than willing to do paid work.
It's pretty bad publicity for businesses now to be labelled as 'we don't serve gays here' so I don't see how this is good for them either.
Seems to be an example of legislation that solved a problem that didn't exist.
I get where you're coming from, but if some business wants to discriminate against me, they can discriminate themselves all the way to bankruptcy. I'd prefer that rather than them being legally forced to do shitty work for me because they're dicks.