The idea that private individuals and businesses ought to conform to a prescribed set of moral values dictated by &quot;society&quot; is the very definition of &quot;totalitarianism,&quot; no less because you give them nice-sounding names like &quot;humanist and democratic,&quot; nor less because you attempt to create an emotional linkage of the reverse case to racism.<p>Are people free, independent actors, or are they merely cogs in some vast social machine, constrainted to operate in their private lives and businesses according to the arbitrary dictates of some self-appointed group of sermonizing moralists?