Religious liberty and conscience rights are certainly worth defending against an increasing liberal onslaught. A female wax technician should never be forced by the state to wax a transgender woman’s testicles. Nor should a Christian baker be forced to endorse messages he doesn’t believe in. All have the First Amendment right to be free from compelled speech, and that right doesn’t disappear when we begin to engage in business.

But our support for religious liberty and freedom of conscience doesn’t negate our ability to also support reasonable accommodations and rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Of course, conservatives shouldn’t support wide-ranging, radical bills such as the House Democrats’ Equality Act, which would crush freedom of religion and redefine biological sex out of existence. Yet there’s no reason conservatives can’t support common sense, reasonable anti-discrimination protections — on the rare occasion that’s actually what Democrats propose.