This is the thing working as designed. They wouldn’t care if there were zero doctors (or teachers or hardware salespeople) in the state, as long as gay people don’t feel safe and leave.
These sorts of stories fall into the thing that CS Lewis describes*. It doesn’t matter what calamity befalls the citizens of a particular state or country, because whatever that calamity is pales in comparison to saving peoples’ eternal souls. Nothing can trump that. We can look aghast at the dystopian hellscape certain people seem to want to move towards, but the dystopian hellscape part doesn’t bother them because, again, souls. What does the environment, or good governance, or access to a pediatric heart specialist, or Disney not spending a billion dollars in your state matter if souls are in danger of spending eternity in hell?
*( “The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth.”)
