"There's the morality people use to govern their own individual choices as they go through life," says Richard Kelo. "Then separately there's the morality that pertains to our interactions with other people. The problem is when people try to take things they've settled on as personally moral and force other people to adopt their choices as the way we all interact with one another in society," he continues.
The Wedding Cake
Consider the now-famous example of the prejudice wedding cake baker who refuses to make cakes for same sex weddings. What is the proper way to view this?
According to Kelo if we use force to compel the cake baker to make a cake, then we are imposing our own personal morality on him. Instead, says Rick Kelo, "In the relations between people we have to remember to view our fellow man as someone to be persuaded. To be reasoned with and convinced, but not to be coerced and forced to live his life by our personal code of morality."
In interactions between people we must remember not to steam-roll people who don't think like us. The world is big enough for more than one wedding cake baker.
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| Rick Kelo |
