In moral issues, discrimination fine

I continue to be shocked that our government and many Americans think that “discriminating” against people on moral issues is wrong. I was reminded of this by the Los Angeles Times editorial “No ‘wedding cake’ exception,” in Monday’s Dispatch.

A Colorado baker, Jack Phillips, has been prosecuted for refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage. The Colorado Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Colorado’s law prohibiting discrimination by businesses on the basis of sexual orientation. The case is now before the U. S. Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court should have never decided that same-sex couples held a constitutional right to marry. Discrimination against people based on external characteristics (the outer man) such as race, disability, ethnicity, etc. is always wrong. But discrimination based on the moral beliefs of our souls (the inner man) is good and done every day.

Our government has laws against polygamy, bestiality, and lying under oath. And most Americans discriminate against or don’t get close to liars, cheaters, and adulterers.

There will always be some people involved in sexual sins, but it used to be kept private.

Gay-rights parades and the legality of same-sex marriage is sickening to many of us. Although often delayed, our actions (good and bad) do have consequences.

H. Jack Taylor Columbus