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    The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom

    Many of today's political disagreements center on this act of Congress.

    The Equality Act Will Harm Religious Freedom

    Supporters of the Equality Act claim it will increase equality in America, but it will actually harm one of the most fundamental rights we all share as Americans – religious freedom. It purports to ban discrimination, but it actually bans disagreement.

    If passed, the law will damage not only the priceless American achievement of religious freedom for all, but also its indispensable progeny: pluralism, limited government, and unity.

    The Act, which was introduced in Congress earlier this year and is scheduled for a vote on the House floor Friday, would add sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to classes protected under the Civil Rights Act, such as race and sex. Proponents assert a faulty analogy between SOGI and race. Race is an immutable characteristic unconnected to distinctive behaviors or expressions. By contrast, behaviors and expressions are part of SOGI identities.

    Can the rejection of SOGI behaviors and expressions be tolerated in America? In its decision legalizing same-sex marriage, the Supreme Court said yes. “Many who deem same-sex marriage to be wrong reach that conclusion on decent and honorable religious and philosophical principles,” Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his majority opinion.

    The Equality Act assumes that those who have reached that conclusion are indecent and dishonorable....
    The left cannot fathom the court's conclusions and assume that Christians are intolerable and hateful.
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    It'll be interesting to see how this butts up against the First Amendment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    It'll be interesting to see how this butts up against the First Amendment.
    Under a conservative court. We know what would result with a liberal court, just look at public accommodation.
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    Just don't force people to change their religious practices to accommodate certain people and all will be well.

    Mess with it and lead will fly pretty quickly I think.

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    When you create a protected class, you are actually creating less equality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    When you create a protected class, you are actually creating less equality.
    Right, some think equal ends can be achieved my unequal means.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Chris View Post
    Right, some think equal ends can be achieved my unequal means.
    As long as the right people are being considered less equal than some others.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cthulhu View Post
    Just don't force people to change their religious practices to accommodate certain people and all will be well.....
    Where the disconnect occurs and the error lies for many is in believing that somehow operating a public business, or performing one's professional duties, constitutes a practice of religion. Like Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even though it was her job to do so...or the pharmacy worker who refused to sell prescribed female hormone drugs to a trans woman. For many years, the law has seen and drawn the distinction between religious and non-religious functions of even churches and other religious institutions, let alone individuals working in a secular context. Not being permitted to overlay what I may believe is a tenet of my religious Faith onto my job description is in no way an affront to or violation of my religious freedom, as Christ himself noted in Mark 12:17.

    Incidentally, I don't see many people objecting to government actions to protect people on the basis of religious discrimination these days, despite the fact that one's religion is a matter of choice - not an innate or "immutable" characteristic.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Standing Wolf View Post
    Where the disconnect occurs and the error lies for many is in believing that somehow operating a public business, or performing one's professional duties, constitutes a practice of religion. Like Kim Davis, the Kentucky clerk who refused to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, even though it was her job to do so...or the pharmacy worker who refused to sell prescribed female hormone drugs to a trans woman. For many years, the law has seen and drawn the distinction between religious and non-religious functions of even churches and other religious institutions, let alone individuals working in a secular context. Not being permitted to overlay what I may believe is a tenet of my religious Faith onto my job description is in no way an affront to or violation of my religious freedom, as Christ himself noted in Mark 12:17.

    Incidentally, I don't see many people objecting to government actions to protect people on the basis of religious discrimination these days, despite the fact that one's religion is a matter of choice - not an innate or "immutable" characteristic.

    No, this is where the disconnect occurs: Where you conflate private and public.

    In the case of Kim Davis, I agree. She took a public position working for the state. And because the 14th amendment has been incorporated, federal law overrides state law and she must abide, or leave her position. All that makes reasonable sense. Like with all rights of the people in the Constitution, they are protected against government interference.

    But when we come to bakers and cake makers in their private business, applying constitutional protections against government interference is unreasonable, it is in fact interference by the government against protected rights of the people.

    Deflating your conflation of private and public is the heart of Mark 12:17.
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