Friday, December 27, 2019

Same Sex Marriage Debate Over The Free Speech Clause And...

Judging from this article from Wall Street Journal, the major conflict that exists in this same-sex-marriage-legalization debate is between the free-speech clause and antidiscrimination law. Technically, the people who refused to offer their service to the homosexual people based on their religious belief were not legally wrong according to the first amendment. However, did the homosexual couples do anything wrong? No, they didn’t. They ordered the same services, and they were willing to pay the same amount of money. What they wanted was nothing illegal. Then here comes the dilemma, how can neither of them be â€Å"wrong† in a conflict? So, this paper will analyze the â€Å"rightness† and the â€Å"wrongness† in an ethical dilemma between civil rights†¦show more content†¦For Kantian ethics, the standard is based on if most people are acting the same way. Even though some people are still struggling on whether they should support the LGBT communit y, the statistics give us a clear trend of people’s change of their perspective on same-sex marriage. According to the national polling data, the number of people who support the same-sex marriage had risen from 37 percent in 2005 to 60 percent in 2015. Apparently, with the development of the modern society, more and more people are becoming open-minded and willing to show their support to the LGBT community. Moreover, while some religious people against the same-sex marriage, some of them choose to support it due to the different interpretation of the bible they are holding. â€Å"Jesus never said a single word about gays or lesbians or same-sex marriage, or any of the other social issues that so many people seem to be possessed with fighting today†, said Ducan(n.d),a Christian. Since the number of supporting the legalization of same-sex marriage has an increasing tendency, in this instance, same-sex marriage can be defined morally right standing on the popular belie f. For the principle of Rights, whether a business decision is defined ethical depends on how it affects the rights of stakeholders, including owners, consumers, employees, the community and the society. For the firms that rejected to do business with Gay couples, they

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