Reply #2: Well, he's kind of missing a point, here [View All]

indicated by: "Could Christian schools lose the right to determine that only Christians may serve as teachers and staff members? Could Christian churches be compelled to hire homosexuals as Sunday school teachers even though homosexuality is proscribed in the Bible? Could religious schools that make use of federal education dollars be penalized if they do not hire homosexual staff members?"

The suit is against a public business. While I sympathise with Mr. Bono's delicate sensibilities, this is not porn and it is not illegal and he is in the business of duplicating legal items. He is not a critic nor is he the world's moral arbiter. Either he needs to point clients to alternative companies or he needs to bite the bullet and realize the world is not going to change to suit him and he needs to open his business to all comers.

Now churches and their attached schools are a little different. Their business IS in being moral arbiters, and they don't pretend to serve all comers equally. They retain a degree of privacy a public business does not and aren't required to abandon doctrine that conflicts with public access laws, although one hopes they will grow up eventually and do so.

We desperately need to draw a line on where the JOB and one's PRIVATE life reside. Anyone who can't do his job needs to get out of that business. That applies to Mr. Bono as it does to pharmacists who find it morally reprehensible to fill legal prescriptions.