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Do you believe the idea of churches being forced to marry people is likely/ra...
The flip side to this is letting any declared religious belief be a loophole to public accommodation laws. If I say my sincere religious belief precludes me from allowing Jews to board my airplane, is my air transport operation then allowed to reject any Jewish passenger?
How about race? Can I put up a "NO BLACKS" sign on my restaurant door if it's a "sincere" religious belief?
If that's your opinion, just say so. "I think businesses should be able to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexuality."
Regardless, changing marriage into something it has never been is an extremist position.
Except we’re not talking about “interracial” marriages. We’re talking about homosexual marriages. And while you insist that churches will not be forced to marry homosexuals--above you state that “f someone doesn't want to bake a wedding cake or photograph an…interfaith wedding or the wedding of someone of a certain faith, they too are sued and ‘run out of business’ because it is illegal discrimination…”. Sorry, don’t know how to break it to you but someone who thinks it’s okay to marry someone of the same-sex has a very different faith (“interfaith”) from the one described in the Christian Bible and practiced by a majority of Christian Churches.
Trying to argue a strawman, are we?
Like it or not, forcing people to involve their businesses in unwanted homosexual marriages in not a far cry from forcing churches to marry homosexuals. In my mind this is simply a foregone conclusion. In my opinion, churches will be forced to marry homosexuals or be forced to give up their tax exempt status.
The flip side to this is letting any declared religious belief be a loophole to public accommodation laws. If I say my sincere religious belief precludes me from allowing Jews to board my airplane, is my air transport operation then allowed to reject any Jewish passenger?
How about race? Can I put up a "NO BLACKS" sign on my restaurant door if it's a "sincere" religious belief?
If that's your opinion, just say so. "I think businesses should be able to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, or sexuality."