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It's a statement about individualism v collectivism. If you fail to support others, others will fail to support you.
But you are advocating using government force against another private citizen - just as the fascists sought to use government force against Jewish business owners.
The business owner is not seeking to use government force or coercion against the LGBT community, they are simply exercising their right to do business with whom they wish.
Your viewing this exactly backwards - just as most Americans have come to view these issues in the most unAmerican of ways, i.e. that the Constitution is a positive document which gives the FedGov almost unlimited power over the people.
The Constitution was designed to be a negative, constrictive document that constrained and prevented the government from imposing anything upon the people that it was not expressly empowered by the Constitution to do.
The Constitution has been turned on its head. Instead of the people being free to conduct their lives as they see fit, free from government interference in their lives, we now live in a country in which the FedGov is empowered to arrest people without warrant, seize their property in direct violation of the 4th amendment, hold them without charge, and kill them without due process. Of course the government is also empowered to force the citizenry to purchase private financial instruments, and to dictate the terms upon which a supposedly private business can conduct its business.
That brief summation is entirely characteristic of fascism, and entirely unAmerican, anti-liberty, and unconstitutional.
Yet, here we are - "... in America today, the path to tyranny can be laid by entirely legal means."
The threat here, as in almost all cases, is the government. It is not the business owner who, may or may not be a bigot. If he wants to be a bigot, don't do business with him - but you have no right to force him to do anything, nor does the government.