In state after state, when the voters have had the decision put before them, they don't want it. For a wide range of reasons. Tradition, religion, family values, morality, common sense,... whatever.
Again, if they don't want gay marriage, they’re free to not get gay married. Unless they can prove harm, they have no right to stop someone else from doing it. It simply isn't their right to not be offended. If it's against their tradition to get gay married, I recommend that they not get gay married. If it's against their religion to get gay married, I recommend that they not get gay married. If it's against their families values to get gay married, I recommend that they not get gay married. If it's against their morality to get gay married, I recommend that they not get gay married. If they somehow think it's common sense not to get gay married, I recommend that they not get gay married.
That's their right, and it always has been, and always will be. It's
not their right to deny equal protection of the law, though. They don't have that right, no matter how mad it makes them.
But the thought police do nothing but attack and "stomp their feet" and make accusations and have many non thinking people think this is the most important issue in the world. It's not. Gays can be gay without getting married.
And bigots can be bigoted without interrupting someone else's life. They're free to sit around hating gays all they want. That's not illegal. Denying equal protection of the law
is illegal, though, so they're not allowed to.
But back to the discrimination part. Just the other day while listening to the radio a news story came on about a bakery, I think, where a gay couple wanted the owners to do their wedding. The owners declined their business based on whatever reason it was that they had against gay marriage. Now of course, a lawsuit has been filed so the bakery owners said screw it, and closed up their shop. So the thought police win this one. But it won't end there. The thought police will continue to feel more and more righteous and vindictive and will seek more legal control over peoples thoughts, words and actions and will discriminate against them by any method.
You just championed state law being whatever the state wants to do, didn't you? The law they're being investigated under is state law, not federal law. So this is the people of the state saying that what they
really don't want is bigoted businesses discriminating against gay people.
And no one's trying to police your thoughts. You are, have always been, and will always be free to hate gays. You're just not free to deny them equal protection of the law. Taht's all. And if a bakery would rather go out of business than sell a cake to a gay lady, that's their own stupid fault. Someone else will surely pick up the business.