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Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed
The response is "None of your post matters"
The constitution gives the govt the power to regulate commerce and if chooses to exercise that power, it is constitutional for it to do so. Whether or not it chooses to exercise that power is up to the people. In the case of banning discrimination against LGBT's, the people of a number of states, cities, and counties have chosen to ban it.
I posted this on another thread and nobody disputed it:
The legalization of gay marriage gave homosexual people the right to marry each other over the objections of both the religious, and non-religious, who believe that marriage should remain as it has throughout human history, as the joining of one man, to one woman. Having that right to marry, should not be a licence to force the participation of those who in doing so, would violate the tenets of their religion. In other words, the obtaining of a right by one group, shouldn't result in the sacrificing of a right by another group.
But there's more...
A gay couple having a formal ceremony with food, a photographer, a cake, music, etc... is a 100% optional activity and totally unnecessary to exercise their right to become a legally married gay couple. How can anyone justify that a person be legally compelled to defy their religious beliefs and participate in an event/ceremony that has no effect what so ever on the rights of gay people to wed?
It's clear that choosing not to cater to a gay wedding based on religious grounds, is not discrimination against gay people, but discrimination against a ceremony that has been deemed sacrilegious for thousands of years. Laws have been passed so that nobodys religious rights can infringe on a homosexual's right to engage in a same-sex marriage, so why shouldn't there be laws passed that assure that a homosexuals rights to wed, doesn't infringe on anyones religious rights and beliefs?
Isn't that not only fair, but the way it should be?
The response is "None of your post matters"
The constitution gives the govt the power to regulate commerce and if chooses to exercise that power, it is constitutional for it to do so. Whether or not it chooses to exercise that power is up to the people. In the case of banning discrimination against LGBT's, the people of a number of states, cities, and counties have chosen to ban it.