Before I made artists' book by hand I tried a few small printers. I was refused at 2 places...religious reasons.
I didn't care. They have the right to not work on my stuff if it is offensive to them.
Do they have the right to refuse on your stuff because they are offended by what you are?
I think that a point is missing, which is this:
even if it was their right to refuse to work on your stuff because of you, exercising this right may be an exercise
unnecessarily devoid of respect of other.
The operative word, here, is
unnecessarily.
Rights and freedoms (like freedom of speech) are not toys to pleasure oneself with: they are tools to build a better society.This means that the unnecessarily devoid of respect of other use of a right or a freedom is in fact an abuse, because such an exercise doesn't serve the purpose.
I'm an atheist and I have the right to say that all religions are just tales and lies.
But I don't go outside churches and scream "you're being lied!" to those going in or coming out, because I would be disrespectful of those people without doing any good to the society as a whole.
Some extreatheists would say that a world without believers would be a better world, but guess what? They are wrong.
And, more so, they are wrong
in the very same way homophobic people say a world without gay would be a better world.
That's the real problem with this law: it tell homophobic people that it's they right to exercise their rights and freedoms in a unnecessarily devoid of respect of other way.
Because, let's face it: the world isn't going to be a better place if a gay is refused service from a business.