1.) Do you really believe that you are supporting a free country when you are forcing people to violate their religious beliefs and conscience?
2.) If you believe in tolerance, why don't you just boycott and protest the business instead of forcing your views on an independent business?
3.) If you think the business is bigoted for not supporting a gay marriage then why are you giving them money? Even if you force them to deny their conscience and religion they still hold those beliefs and you are supporting them.
4.) There are thousands of places to buy flowers and cakes, why not just go to another place and leave the business alone? That way no one has to violate their religion and you get what you want too.
5.) You probably consider yourself to be open-minded, so let me ask you: Have you really considered the other side?
I'm not saying that Indiana's new law doesn't have problems, but I am asking you to consider that other people have rights and that in a free and democratic country we must accept that people should be allowed to make judgments freely; based on their conscience and religion, and that religious individuals have a right to have jobs in the public square without having to deny their conscience and religion.
I believe that we can live in a free country; that we can have a society in which every person, religious or not can freely express and live by their religious convictions in private and public, and that the majority opinion should not force anyone out of the public square so long as they are not hurting others.
The real question here is: Do you believe in having a free society or are you willing to give up on the idea of liberty?
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