Fifty-nine percent say businesses should have right to decline gay wedding business

This doesn't exactly put me in the mood to celebrate, because it still means 41 percent of Americans are OK with fascism. But it least it confirms what you sort of suspect, which is that the enforcers of the New Mandatory Gay Orthodoxy are a vocal minority and don't in any way represent the majority of Americans.

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Better yet, the percentage who now say businesses should have the right to turn down business related to a gay wedding is rising, which I suspect owes to the fact that some of the real-life examples are getting some attention and people realize this is far from a matter of some bigoted clod telling people to get out of his diner just because they're gay:

Asked about the Supreme Court’s decision on Obergefell v. Hodges, 39 percent of respondents said that they agree with the ruling and 41 percent said that they disagree, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. The poll also found that 59 percent of Americans believe that business owners should be free to decline to participate in a same-sex wedding service if they feel doing so would violate their religious beliefs, up from 52 percent earlier this year. When religious liberty conflicts with gay rights, 56 percent said the government should prioritize protecting religious liberty, and 39 percent said gay rights should be prioritized.

That last part is instructive because Religious Freedom Restoration Acts in Indiana and elsewhere, which were portrayed by the media and gay activists as tantamount to reinstituting Jim Crow, are really about nothing more than choosing the priority 56 percent chose in this poll. The state RFRA laws were never designed, as the left dishonestly claimed, to permit blanket denials of service to people just because they're gay. It was to govern what would happen when religious faith and the demand of a homosexual couple specifically related to their practice of homosexuality came into conflict. And the proscribed solution in that situation was that the service provider could opt out and ask the customers to find a different provider. That's what saw Indiana business leaders freaking out and threatening to leave the state. The substance of the bill itself merely reflected the attitudes of the majority of the population that you shouldn't force someone to provide a service that conflicts with their faith. What the Chamber of Commerce types really feared was the threats and boycotts from activists. They don't want any trouble, regardless of why the trouble is occurring. If capitulating on a basic constitutional right is the way to keep sign-wavers away from your corporate headquarters, then who needs an old piece of paper anyway? Just know? A growing majority sides with the bakers, florists and wedding photographers who would appreciate if the gay couple finds another provider. You'd never know it from the fire-breathing of the mob, but it's true.