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The difference here is that discrimination based on sexual orientation is prohibited under federal civil rights laws, so if you're going to bake a wedding cake for a straight person, you cannot refuse to do so for someone else because they're gay. As far as I can tell, the company Parler does not fall into a protected class.

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Laws only describe the way things are, not the way things should be.

In other words that's a really shallow argument.

How about this, it's not hypocritical to think that discrimination against gay people is wrong but "discrimination" against people calling for violence is right. It's only hypocritical if you think that calling for violence and being gay are equally morally wrong. That or if you think that those who were saying you shouldn't discriminate against minorities were also including people calling for murder as a minority (they weren't).

Ok, so heres the argument in other words: Gay people should be able to live their lives with the same rights and privileges of any straight person. I do not believe in similar protections for a company that exists to host and promote the violent extremist rhetoric shunned elsewhere by polite society.

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