Musings of a Liberal Texan

In Response to The Garden Guy’s “Personal Choice” (submitted to the New York Times and the Houston Chronicle letters to the editor) I know many people who make choices, “personal choices”, based on the movement of their hearts. People who have chosen to stop consuming animals, people who have decided to foster children or become missionaries, people who have decided to join Doctors Without Borders or to run to Darfur to help in anyway that they can. I know about “personal choice”. But when you make a “personal choice” that negatively affects other people, you cannot hide behind this alleged “heart choice” or behind religion. You have to recognize that you are not standing on moral ground, you are standing under the lynching tree, next to the hobbling mallet, next to the torturer, you are standing in front of the jail house door, unjustly mandating how others are treated. The Garden Guy Company in Houston Texas discriminates. Do they have a right to? Of course, it is a free country. How...