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Oh, the horror, people being dragged out of church and forced to marry someone of the same sex! That's terrible, you being violated like that! Er...not you, but a "friend" of yours? Not that either, but you heard about a guy that ....no?
Drama queen.
People aren't forced to marry someone of the same sex, which is about the only way they would be forced to violate their religion, and even then, the violation in autonomy would be the bigger issue.
I have almost no sympathy for people who cry "x violates my religion!" anymore, because it almost always amounts to "I don't want to follow the law, so I'll just hide behind religion as an excuse not to."
Ever since the invention of democracy, society has needed to find ways to balance the needs and preferences of different religions, ethnic groups, and subcultures (including different sects of the same religion) against the needs and preferences of other religions and groups, as well as society as a whole. Once middle-class, dominant race, dominant religion groups lose control of the narrative, the "balance" stops being skewed very heavily in their favor.
You lost the narrative, and you ain't getting it back any time soon. Suck it up, buttercup.
1- Where does the Bible say that selling goods and services to non believers or sinners is anathema to God? If it did, Christians would be dirt poor because you wouldn't be able to make a living from anyone outside of your particular sect of Christianity.
2- Despite your claims, America is not a Christian nation. It was specifically created to have a purely secular government. As such even though it protects your right to practice the religion of your choice it also puts the rights of its' citizens above religious beliefs (in theory anyway). So if your beliefs violate the rights of others, too bad. And for goodness' sake find out the facts before you mouth off. Sweet Cakes wasn't fined for not catering to gays, they were fined for harassment. And other "religious rights violations" are pretty much the same.
That's why "this is OK".
No, no one has been forced to "violate their religion" because of gay marriage. There may be an argument that people have been forced to "violate their religion" because of public accommodation laws, but those are unrelated to gay marriage being legal.
We already see people being forced to violate their religion because of it. How is this okay?
Because - certainly in the case(s) of those fundie Christain bakers in Northern Ireland after their failed appeal, and Kim Il-Davis - one gets the most exquisite feeling of Schadenfreude to see the likes of them get the slightest emotional equivalent of the physical pain LGBT people have had to suffer for thousands of years: by the likes of fundies such as them.
Don't want to be forced to accept S-SM, you have no right to even think of forcing your religious bigoty - certainly via politics - on anyone not exactly like you.
Because if you so much as think of forcing such on anyone, we have more than every right in the world to force back. And if that means via the legal system, so be it. Romans 13:1-7, bitches.
Ot you can just become Quakers or Unitarian Universalists. If they have no problem with LGBT people and their legal rights - certainly their right to have equal ones - then what's your excuse?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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