[pdonis]

You're assuming, at the very least, that the competitive benefit of nondiscrimination exceeds the barriers to entry in the market.

Tim Cook was making the same assumption in the article when he said that workplace equality is good for business.

Also, the "barriers to entry" came from those state and local government regulations I referred to; asking the Federal government to provide a level playing field would have meant asking the Federal government to force state and local governments to remove those barriers to entry.