Quote"As a matter of business, I don't see the connection between homosexuality and a vibrant economy," Mero said. "And if there is a connection for some unfathomable reason, money isn't the measure of everything.
This is an important issue and hopefully it will become a widespread talking point.
The connection between business and any restrictions on any lifestyle are that it presents limits upon business. More importantly, by a considerable margin, when some people are treated as second class becuase of an otherwise irrelevant distinction, that limits innovation.
The reason we choose business over any religion as the basis for policy is that it it the benchmark by which the majority can agree. That is, what earns them a living and provides them with goods and services. Such restrictions as may be necessary, selling guns or drugs for example, can be applied on a case by case basis, where social need is greater.
Capitalism is such a simple idea. But it can only work when we all accept the each individual must have an equal opportunity. Race, private life, personal beliefs, these all have no part in capitalism.
Sadly, it seems the real intentions of these religious extremists is becoming more and more apparent. They are and always have been, anti-American, anti-democracy, anti-liberal.
