C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
If I give a friend $500.00 so his girlfriend can get an abortion, did I sin knowing what the money was for?
If I let my neighbor borrow my hammer because he wanted to murder his wife with it, did I commit a crime?
If I let my son drive my car knowing he is drunk and he kills someone by driving on the sidewalk, am I not guilty as well?
If I bake a cake for a gay wedding and homosexuality is considered a sin in my religion, am I not committing a sin?
This fails as a false comparison fallacy, where again religious doctrine and dogma cannot be used to excuse disobeying a just and proper law, such as public accommodations laws.
What's next, forcing church's to perform gay weddings? Because that's what this "Panel" is doing, you wait and see.
Incorrect.
Public accommodations laws apply only to for profit commercial entities that provide goods and services to the general public in the context of a given local market, where the Commerce Clause authorizes government to safeguard the integrity of the markets, as allowing discriminatory practices can result in the disruption of the local market and other interrelated market (Wickard v. Filburn (1942)).
Churches are private non-profit entities, and are not subject to public accommodations laws accordingly.