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Posted by The silence on Tue Apr 8 19:47:26 2014, in response to Re: This Actually Happened In America Today, posted by Nilet on Tue Apr 8 13:37:09 2014. I answered your question a long time ago.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. The actions you describe would be next to impossible to sell as sincere religious beliefs. Not supporting gay marriage is a known, common, scincerly held belief. Right or wrong doesn't matter in this instance. I don't know of any religion currently that exposes rejecting black people. The other thing you're missing is circumstance of wanting to reject someone. The original case, it was a wedding photographer who refused to do a gay wedding. He would have to be there for the activity to photograph it. Activity he wholly rejects as immoral. What are we gonna do next, force Terrapin to eat a ham at gun point? Or post on Saturday? These are his scincerly held religious beliefs. Well at least we know the later is, I don't know much of his eating habbits or care to learn. One earlier freedom of religion case was a Jewish store owner who wished to open his store on Sunday in violation of the local Blue Laws, because he could not compete with other store owners because he couldn't open on Saturday because of his Sabbath obligations, and couldn't do Sunday because the local laws said he couldn't. The uncaring courts of the time said he could not open on Sunday. But a law such as the one being debated here would allow him to open on Sunday if the government can't prove that enforcing the blue laws passes the nessiasry tests written into the law. Look at it this way. It would be like someone sueing you for refusing to photograph a KKK rally. You do not share thier beliefs. You'd want nothing to do with those people. So why do you see fit to force other's into similar cricumstances? |
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