No. Even in a government setting they're allowed to practice their belief
as an individual. NOT as an official. In other words, not as an act of office, and not acting in the capacity of the officeholder. If you were mayor, you'd have every right to personally hate gays if that's your religious belief. But if you tried to direct the Office of the Mayor to attack gays, that would be illegal. Your personal religious beliefs are not the religious beliefs of the office, itself.
So when some asshole like ex-Judge Roy Moore says he's going to ignore Alabama law and adjudicate from the Bible, instead, he gets disbarred and kicked off the bench, because he was trying to use his office as a religious establishment. Had he kept his personal view personal and faithfully executed the office he held, then he wouldn't have had any problem.
This is bunk.
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They had to change from one tax exempt status to another. They were using land tax-exempt as a non-profit maintaining publicly-accessible facility, but they were denying
access to those facilities based on gender. They had to change it to a religious tax-exemption.
Mind you, they weren't excepted from the non-religious non-profit for refusing to
perform same-sex marriages, but refusing to allow others to
access the pavilion to perform same-sex marriages outside of the church. Since they were using a tax-exempt status for publicly accessible facilities, they can't do that -- unless they want to change the tax exemption status.
