It's not one or the other though, we're both right. It's a problem they they're trying to make pride political, along with banning of speech that causes no harm to anyone. B
ut at least this is so blatantly unconstitutional and subject to be turned around and used against them if it stands that there's no way it will survive a constitutional review.
Does Florida not understand what the first amendment is for? Because I'm pretty sure that this is EXACTLY the sort of overreach that it was written to prevent.
and having to drive everywhere for the simplest of errands
You say that as if most people lived in cities that didn't require driving for every simple errand, whether they lived in a house or apartment. Good on you if you live in a walkable city, but you're the exception.
Must just be your area. Where I live we have roundabouts all around (I have to go through 3 of them to get to my closest hardware store) and I don't really see that many people that have issues with them. Worst we have to deal with are cars who are too slow to get into the roundabout and wait forever, or drive slowly and clog up the roundabout, but those are pretty rare thankfully.
Walgreens tried to do the same thing (close stores and blame shrinkage) and even walked it back later (and that's not even pointing out they had an SEC filing a couple years before where they planned on closing 200 stores).
They absolutely are. Hell, one of my most vivid memories is getting into my buddy's grandmother's jeep tracker at a hobby store parking lot, and a cop walked up and unholstered his gun to talk to a couple teenagers.
Our crime? Using a handicap stall while driving a car with a handicap placard in the license plate.