In response to Pastor Jensen’s letter, “Loss of integrity can’t be the cost,” about Christian businesses providing services for gay weddings: Pastor Jensen poses a hypothetical where pro-choice signmakers are asked to produce graphic anti-abortion signs and claims that “everyone knows that proposition won’t fly.” I can only assume that by “everyone” he is referring to everyone in his circle of like-minded friends and acquaintances. I would like to inform him that I, for one, do believe a pro-choice business should provide anti-abortion signs, just as Christian business should service gay weddings. Services are a public accommodation, not a tacit approval of a customer’s request. As a business owner myself, I have lived this belief: I have provided services related to Christian proselytizing even though I don’t agree with such activities.
Pastor Jensen also minimizes the problem by saying at worst a gay couple will be “inconvenienced” by having to look for another business. I would like to remind him that he is speaking as a member of the Christian majority, and that it looks different from the perspective of a minority. Suppose the gay couple live in a rural area where all the florists/bakers are conservatives who refuse to serve their wedding? How far will they have to travel to find a business to serve them? Also, given recent cultural trends, it is not inconceivable that conservative Christians may one day be in the minority; if businesses are allowed to discriminate I wonder how far they will they have to travel to find printer to print their posters?
Rosemary Nguyen
Lake Stevens
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