Republicans just don't get it on discrimination.
If discrimination is bigoted, racist, sexist, xenophobic, homophobic, unjust, and just plain wrong, then it doesn't suddenly cease to be those things when the discrimination is based on some religious conviction.
But discrimination is not "wrong." In fact, there is nothing inherently "wrong" with discrimination. It is not a dirty word. No one has the right to work any job, be served in any restaurant, shop at any store, enter anyone's property, rent any hotel room, lease any apartment, buy any house, be admitted to any club or organization, or associate with someone who doesn't want to associate with him. Discrimination is not aggression—even if it is based on stereotypes, prejudice, bigotry, or racism, and even if it appears to be illogical, irrational, nonsensical, or unreasonable—and should not be prohibited by force of law.
Discrimination means freedom. All discrimination, not just religious discrimination.
A free society is a society free of discrimination laws.
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https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/laurence-m-vance/something-else-republicans-dont-get/