Comment 2

What made an enormous difference once Civil Rights laws were passed was a recognition that the market places where jobs are secured and where goods and services were exchanged were to be places in which people of different skin colors all had to be treated the same.  We are not separate societies – we are one society.

The cake baker bakes and sells cakes on the public markets.  If the cake baker were white, black, straight or gay, Catholic or Muslim, he should be expected to provide the same cakes to all who come to buy what he has to sell.  He doesn’t have to make a different product for a gay wedding – he just needs to make the product he sells to white, black, Catholic, Muslim, straight people.  Gay people are not a separate society but part of the same society as non-gay people.  We all live under the same laws.