William,
I'm not a lawyer and I don't think you are either, unless you have been holding out on me.
There is nothing anti-corporation in what I said previously. I'm all for corporations that treat people fairly. I don't do business with Hobby Lobby because of their views. But I do business with organizations that tell me that they don't discriminate.
I agree with David, I see the Hobby Lobby decision as a bad decision and I'd not be surprised if it isn't over turned some day.
What I get a whiff of from you is that idea the corporations are people.
I'm not anti corporation. I'm just pro the rights of individual people. It is a bizarre twist of the idea of religious rights to claim that someone else getting married against my views of marriage then allows me under religious rights to deny them public services.
The fact that we in the US all live in the society together and can walk into the same business, sit in the same restaurant, and work at the same companies is part of what allows us to have freedom of religion and religious pluralism. Once we start treating companies as if they have the rights of people or even the rights of a Church we have actually made the rights of religious bodies mean less.
I know someone won't like the racial comparison. But if you replaced the entire discussion with serving couples who were getting married and one was white and the other black and a florist or a baker was going to deny them service because their religion forbid mixed race marriages I think the discussion would likely go differently.
Both anti-mixed race marriage and anti-same sex marriage can be religious views. Will we be a society where religious freedom means freedom to tell someone else how they have to live? I hope not. Because ultimately if someone isn't free to be wrong and only free to agree with you or me then we really aren't free.