There is that small fact that same-sex marriage hasn't begun to "tread dangerously on religious rights"
Maybe if you ignore my entire post, sure. But the evidence is quite clear that it does and will continue to do so.
A well articulated and grammatically correct attempted justification of removing the legal rights of those who fail to conform to this person's religious beliefs.
This point has nothing to do with religious beliefs. You're intentionally trying to downplay my arguments as religious zeal when they're actually secular ones.
A society has a moral responsibility to promote good health and discourage bad health. That's why we restrict smoking, alcohol, drugs, etc. By glorifying and encouraging those with same-sex urges to freely act on those urges, we knowingly and intentionally steer them towards a lifestyle statistically at a high-risk of countless unwanted effects. This isn't a religious issue; it's a societal and practical one.
Actually there are "major religions" which disagree with you.
The fundamental dogma of the world's three main religions prohibit homosexuality. Should some choose to ignore that and call themselves proud gays and proud Christians/Muslims/Jews, good for them, but that doesn't change the widely accepted scripture and beliefs of the remaining 90% of followers.
Then, we get to the matter that the religious right is using as their basis for claiming the government is taking away their religious rights - "being forced to sell a business product to gays" -- which is being promoted with the same excuses as were used in the Jim Crow Days to deny black customers services supplied to white people.
Wrong. Christian businesses aren't being forced to sell to gay people, they're being forced to participate in a gay wedding; an event explicitly forbidden by their religion. In the most prominent case of
Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the owner had no problem selling to gay individuals. In fact, the gay couple that started the lawsuit admitted that they had bought cakes from him before. The issue was that they explicitly requested a
gay wedding cake , to which he responded that his business doesn't make those (much the same way any regular bakery would say they don't do bar-mitzvah cakes, for example, which is perfectly legal, or a mechanic telling you he doesn't fix BMWs, or a plumber telling you he only does commercial plumbing, not residential).
A business has a right to pick and choose which products/services they offer. Anything otherwise is forced labor.
Selling a product or a service to those willing and capable of paying for said product or service is a necessary requirement for a civil, capitalistic society.
Yet the very people making this argument have no problem with mainstream digital platforms like Youtube, Facebook, Paypal, Google etc denying their services to anyone with Conservative, pro-Trump views. Countless content creators have been kicked or de-monetized from these services simply because the platforms don't like their views and choose not to host them. Similarly, it seems that nobody has a problem with gay bakeries refusing to sell to Christians
YouTube
Or Muslim bakeries refusing to sell to gays
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Simply because it doesn't fit the agenda to attack and single-out Christians. What we are seeing here is a selective right to discriminate, where a certain freedom is granted only to a particular group of people/businesses and not to others (ironically the same thing gays allege is being done to them).