Editor, Times-Union: Suppose a certain airline announces that all flights will be flown upside down from now on. Then a large corporate client is sued by the airline because they choose to no longer send their employees on flights with that airline. With today's convoluted logic forced by courts of law, that corporation would be branded as discriminatory and forced to fly upside down. Individual liberty of conscience is at risk in America under the guise of supposed discrimination. An agency of our government, namely the courts, which did not invent, create or define the institution of marriage, is trying to force people against their will and conscience, to accept a perverse new definition of marriage in order to legitimize immoral behavior. How can that be done? By redefining words to creating an atmosphere that makes what someone chooses not to do, a criminal act. So, if you discriminate against something redefined as normal, the threat of fines and confiscation of property may await you for refusing to transact business. Discrimination is not summarily a bad word. You drive a Ford, your neighbor drives a Chevrolet. Parents use discrimination when they try to steer their young people away from friends who demonstrate destructive or other forms of negative behavior traits. Amish people use battery powered or solar powered devices, but refuse electricity generated and delivered through electric lines. With today's way of thinking, courts might be able to force the Amish to hook up to the electric grid or be found to commit the dreaded crime of "discrimination." The point here is that our society cannot have it both ways, as our Indiana legislature is now trying to do in placating those who object to the new law protecting liberty of conscience. Only one or the other of the following can be possible: Either American citizens are allowed to decide for themselves whether they will associate or transact business with others with whom their conscience is defiled; Or the new, legally redefined immoral types can force their will on those who would not of their own free will have dealings with them. I hope the few will not govern the majority, as that is not what made America great. Keep in mind, there are plenty of people in America who don't have scruples about morals, so it isn't as though lesbians or sodomites can't find a bakery to serve them. Rick Wagner Pierceton, via email
