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Originally Posted by Guest
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
I clearly understand this amendment but I also understand how it can be misunderstood.
I am going to use the Private Country example. For many years women, such as myself, were NOT allowed to be a primary member of a Country Club and they were NOT allowed to get a tee time on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. As membership fell over the years Country Clubs looked for other streams of income. So they opened these clubs for public uses for a fee. Think weddings.
Had they remained a PRIVATE club nothing could be done to change the rules. Think Augusta! However, once they opened their doors to accommodate the PUBLIC they were required to treat everyone the same. So that is how I a single women got a primary membership in a country club.
This, of course, went through the court system.
If you are an establishment open to the public you also have to treat everyone the same. You can't say you won't bake a cake for a gay person or a black person or a Muslim.
In my opinion, if these laws go though the Courts they will be struct down.
This is NOT an assault on your religion, if you don't want to bake cakes for a protected class then don't be a PUBLIC company.
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I don't think that these laws are just about baking cakes. There seems to be an issue of transgenders and restrooms. I don't know about you, but my wife and daughters do not want to share a restroom with a guy dresses as a woman. Perhaps you are a different type of woman, that does not have that modesty. But, just because there has been an issue about the selling of a cake, does not make that the whole issue. We have nuns that are being told to supply birth control, as well as other businesses required to do the same, when they do not wish to for reason of religious faith. What's next, is the gov going to require Jews and Muslims to consume pork?
Women are very adamant about a woman's choice to commit baby murder(abortion) and insist that it is a RIGHT. Gays are adamant that it is their RIGHT to same sex marriage. Minorities insist that Affirmative Action is a Right. Socialists insist that the Wealthy pay for Free College, that education is a RIGHT. Muslims insist that it is a right for a woman to have her drivers license photo be taken with them wearing a burka covering their face.
Interesting that the 1st Amendment does not cover any of those RIGHTS but it does include Religious Freedom, not from religion but the free practice of religion.
And we have someone worried about a gay wedding cake. Go figure.