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Does everyone have to incorporate themselves as a church to stay within the law and still have their beliefs ?
The law is not required to accommodate your religious beliefs. Should Muslims be allowed to kill infidels? Why not? Should you be able to beat your wife or murder your children if they disobey you? No? How dare the law interfere with my religious beliefs.
If I own a business...not a publicly traded company....I have the right to so serve the customers I want and it's nobody's damned business what I do.
Having said that I would serve anyone (except for a convicted pedophile or terrorist) regardless of their sexual orientation; their money is the same color as anyone else's.
What gets me is that the Lbgt community wants respect then they do stupid crap having a kiss in at Chick Filet and try to force privately owned businesses to serve them.
Making asses of themselves isn't going get acceptance.
Just out of curiosity. In your supposed business how would you know if a customer is a convicted pedofile or terrorist? Background check before entering? I wonder how long your business would stay open.
When it comes to business, anyone can claim that anything is a "religious belief".
Could I run a kitchen, and claim that refrigeration was against my "religious beliefs" and not have to pass that part of the health code?
Could I run a pig farm in my back yard, and claim it is a "religious belief" to get around zoning laws?
I could claim that storing toxic waste in a hole in my yard is a "religious belief". Want to live in my neighborhood?
Maybe my "religious beliefs" say it is perfectly acceptable to sell alcohol to minors. No law can touch my beliefs. Right.
The law is not required to accommodate your religious beliefs. Should Muslims be allowed to kill infidels? Why not? Should you be able to beat your wife or murder your children if they disobey you? No? How dare the law interfere with my religious beliefs.
Business owners (whatever the business) can and do convert from one crazy belief to another. Now, if it's a small business with a personal service (carpet cleaning, whatever) or a 1 man operation they can do whatever they please IMO. But in most cases we can't have businesses that serve a community be at the whims of whatever crazy human (and don't think we all aren't) happens to be the boss that day.
Recently, I have read several accounts regarding business owners who refused LGBT requests for their services. Should religious business owners have to serve LGBT or risk losing their livelihoods, be threatened, boycotted, etc.. for their religious convictions?
3. Iowa. A bistro and art gallery owned by Mennonites refused a gay wedding request for the use of their building. they have since been targeted with countless hate filled emails.
4. Kentucky. A custom T-shirt shop refused to print shirts with pro homosexuals messages.
5. Washington. An elderly florist refused to make the flower arrangements for a gay wedding.
6. Colorado. A bakery refused to bake a cake for a homosexual couple and was boycotted.
The law is not required to accommodate your religious beliefs. Should Muslims be allowed to kill infidels? Why not? Should you be able to beat your wife or murder your children if they disobey you? No? How dare the law interfere with my religious beliefs.
What about the right to practice your religion ?
That's where social reform via legislation crosses the line over the right to practice your religion.
That's part of the First Amendment.
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