You seem to always go right for the extreme example of a morality issue. So, by that standard, I have to concede this argument. I can see that you are not going to understand what I am trying to say, as you always run to the extreme, be it human sacrifice, or child molestation, as the left so frequently does.Ok then, at least we got that settled. So, no company can refuse any service for any reason based on race, religious beliefs, gender, orientation or any of that. Got it.Ok then, I guess the only answer is to force religious businesses to comply with the wishes of anyone who wants to patron their store, and there should absolutely be no organizations who are allowed to refuse anyone based on religion, races, or orientation, correct?If you create anything for specific cause, then you are working on behalf of that cause, which means you are participating.
Right. The electric company was part of the wedding party, along with the people who sold them the ice for the punch.
If that is your stance, then that opens a lot of problems for certain organizations across America.
Also, electric companies are public utilities, and are not privately owned, and if someone purchased ice out of a machine, I don't see how they would have any control.
I'm not talking about discrimination here, I'm talking about actual religious beliefs. You still haven't answered my other question. Do you believe that a Muslim butcher should be forced to handle and process pork products? By what you are saying here, they should be made to do so, even though according to their religion, they are not supposed to touch any unclean meat, but, that doesn't matter, a person should be able to bring in all the hogs they want, and that butcher can not refuse to process them.
If a Muslim butcher is hired by a secular company, yes he should accept the job requirements, including butchering pork.
The same for s pharmacist who believes birth control is wrong. Dispense the pills or find other work.
However, a Muslim butcher shop is not required to sell pork or provide pork products for customers.
Anti-discrimination laws say that if you provide goods or services, you must sell them to everyone regardless of race, religion or sex.
If you apply for a job, you should be prepared to do the job. If aspects of the job violate your beliefs or ethics, find s different job.
But what about that part of the first amendment that says Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free EXERCISE of religion. It doesn't say the freedom to worship, it says the freedom to exercise your religious beliefs. Now, how does that fit in to these public accommodation laws?
I didn't say that. There are valid reasons to refuse service, but your religion isn't one of them.
My rights end when they interfere with your rights. That's how it works. Mormans encouraged their believers to marry very young girls. It was an instruction in their religious cannon. Should their desire to marry and knock up an 11 year old girl be considered part of their freedom to to exercize their religious beliefs?
This is why it is so hard to debate the left, because they always bring their argument from a position of emotion, yet those same people have no problem killing unborn babies.
It's unfortunate, because there are organizations out there that enjoy exclusion protection by the government, who, by your standard, would have to give up that ability, and in the process, destroy some very long standing traditions and institutions.