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Re: This Actually Happened In America Today

Posted by The Silence on Mon Apr 7 10:21:58 2014, in response to Re: This Actually Happened In America Today, posted by JayZeeBMT on Fri Apr 4 13:11:07 2014.

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No.

It doesn't.

Did you actually bother to READ the law?


Here it is in it's entirety

Note section 3 A:

State action or an action by any person based on state action shall not burden a person's right to exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless it is demonstrated that applying the burden to that person's exercise of religion in that particular instance is both of the following:

(i) Essential to further a compelling governmental interest;

(ii) The least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.

A "compelling government interest" includes things like life, limb and personal property.

A photographer can refuse his servers to a gay couple on religious grounds and they can't sue him (the issue from New Mexico that STARTED this whole mess, seriously, why make such a big fuss when you can go find another photographer), but a person CAN'T use it to justify obvious criminal behavior like killing someone. If you're a doctor, you can't refuse to treat a dying patient because of your beliefs. Though as a doctor you shouldn't be doing that anyway.

Also, as noted in section 2, the belief must be held "sincerely." you can't make stuff up or use other religious beliefs without proof they were yours before and remain yours now.

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