I just recieved this note from someone who heard me speak at last week’s Christian Worldview conference.
I am a kitchen designer and I had a client who is a lesbian. Unfortunately, I let it slip that I am a Christian. She said that she couldn’t let me design the warmest room in the house knowing that I would stop (through Prop 8 passage) a wedding from taking place in her home.
I am an independent contractor through a cabinet shop, but I hate to tell my associate this incident because I haven’t “come out of the close” at work that I am a Christian.
I believe that this client has every right to “discriminate” and say that she doesn’t want a Christian doing work for her. Unfortunately, the way the law is developing, this is a one way right. She has the right to choose who she wants working for her, but the kitchen designer, or florist, or photographer, has no right to say, “I prefer not to take this particular job.” The law in CA makes it unlawful discrimination for them to refuse work. But it is perfectly ok for a customer to say, in effect, “I don’t like your kind. Get out of my house.”
Why can’t we all just get along?