“It will also have no capacity to examine whether secular celebrants and owners of small businesses wishing to tap into a newly created niche market by offering wedding services exclusively to same-sex couples may need protection from anti-discrimination laws.”
Let’s pare away the (irrelevant) ecclesiastic and marriage aspects, obtaining:
“small businesses wishing to tap into a newly created niche market by offering … services exclusively … may need protection from anti-discrimination laws.”
Umm. Doesn’t that mean any specialist service is already violating anti-discrimination laws?
Ever hear of reductio ad absurdum? If not actually there, getting pretty close now.
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