Religious Liberty?

[bennyboy]

To what extant should religious liberty in this nation be respected?

Everyone should be able to believe whatever they want including .

But.. at what point should the law respect religious beliefs?

When should allowances be made?

Surely companies, with a Christian basis should not be forced to provide contraception?

A Christina bakery.. shouldn't be...forced..to bake a cake for a gay couples wedding?

Thoughts?

The problem is it's a slippery slope.  How long would it be, if they were allowed, before Southerners would exercising their "religious freedom" not to let gay people work?  Buy food?  Walk on their streets?  Swim in their swimming pools?  Drink water from public fountains?

Replay "gay" with "black" and  you should see pretty quickly what I mean.  Because religion is undefined, and ANY bullshit prejudice can be drawn under some asshole's definition of "religion," and that means that all laws regarding human liberty and equality would have an escape clause.

Pastafarianism (I say) precludes the posting of intolerant religious ideas in the Philosophy section.  Therefore, you are violating my religious liberty right now!