Indiana Governer signs bill allowing businesses to reject gay customers.

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zelmusario said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:

Civil rights has protected people from discrimination. Discrimination is not a reason to ban people from a business. Hospitals are businesses too. What happens if a gay person has life threatening illness or injury and dont have very long to live? Those religious hospitals would be to blame.

Where I live, we've had more than one incident of this in area hospitals. LGBT individuals being in the hospital and their life partners being forcibly removed (even arrested) and not allowed to visit them any more. Usually, it's a family dispute (family is anti-gay, doesn't like the partner), but it does happen, sadly. 

For every step forward in progress, there will always be push-back. With businesses, at least you can speak with your wallet and choose not to support that business. Overall, I'm very impressed with the current generation of young people and their open-mindedness/tolerance. I doubt that this issue will exist 20 years from now. 

I think the issue will continue thirty years from now. Perhaps not one hundred years from now, but for the most part you're spot on. Every progressive will have to deal with a conservative. The push-back is there.