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That’s funny- nightclubs and bars are allowed to bar members of the public and even toss them out using bouncers. And they are allowed to - required to- discriminate based on age. Health insurance companies are allowed to discriminate based on all kinds of reasons. Theme parks are allowed to discriminate based on height. Airlines based on weight. Beauty contests based on beauty. The military likewise discriminates for various reasons. Universities discriminate against Asians.

In this case we have government discriminating against people based on their religion and government establishing religion of its own [liberal secularism] that it forces onto others by placing itself as the ultimate authority on what the religious beliefs and practices of business owners shall be: “She said, “the printing of same-sex persons names on wedding invitations does not hinder in any way plaintiffs’ independent exercise of (their) religious belief by attending the church of their choice, engaging in religious activities or functions, and expressing their beliefs on their business website and literature or in their personal lives.”

Here the judge has left the confines of law to enter the confines of theology. She is, by asserting her own beliefs about what does and does not constitute a religion, establishing the Church of Judge Karen Mullins. She thinks religion is just going to church, singing hymns, and expressing beliefs, but not in actually PRACTICING those beliefs.

She is asserting that a religion may not define as sin anything the state or mere judge defines as permissible and the faithful must perform any act the state permits merely because another person requests it, putting the faith or lack thereof of a third party ahead of the faith of the business owner. Now, it’s one thing for a government to prohibit a religious practice deemed harmful to other individual’s inalienable rights [those rights upon which government is not allowed to infringe ] but quite another for a government to require the religious to commit a sin by active participation in or by facilitating others in sinning so others’ feelings won’t be hurt.

The judge is also failing to recognize that in some protestant churches, whatever vocation we find ourselves in is not merely a job but an act of faith done foremost for the glory of God. Some may, with clean consciences, decide that by doing excellent work for everyone they are witnessing, but the consciences of others just as cleanly may lead them to conclude they would be aiding others in sin and thus they refuse this work. The judge is putting her conscience ahead of all others.

She is forcing a provider of nonessential services to abandon their faith and join her newly fabricated cult or face persecution. She’s also defining what does not constitute a sin by declaring that anything government declares is legal cannot be a sin.

Are their human cells - other than in some occasional hermaphrodite other rare humans that have sex chromosomes that don’t fit the normal XX or XY pattern - no. And even when there are chromosome abnormalities such as XXY, XXXY, ect, the presence of the Y chromosome generally resolves the biological and physical gender to male, and without to female.

So their own biological circumstances of abnormal chromosome patterns and ambiguous genitalia, but again the sex chromosomes, X and Y, and the presence of absence of the Y it the vast majority sets the gender. None of that is about “transgenderism” which is not about ambiguous or abnormal sexual differentiation in the nucleus of every human cell in someone’s body, which does not differ in the cells of the same body.

No, transgenderism is a mental problem, an obsessions continued and entertained to the point where the individual has an identity dysphoria - rejection of the actual gender identity there body has. To use the rare occasions of hermaphrodites and even rarer abnormal combinations of the sex chromosomes as templates for what gender means to the vast population, is intellectually dishonest. It suggests that merely since such differences do appear, naturally, that normal gender is therefor “fluid” and that is simply a lie. It is not “fluid” if you were not born with BIOLOGICAL conditions that somehow make BIOLOGICAL gender “ambiguous”.

There is no “biological” ambiguity with transgenders. Just a mental problem. Their bodies have nothing “wrong” that needs “fixing”. They need professional help to stop satisfy the identity dysphoria that has taken hold in the mind. Yes, the easy solution, just like an addiction, is to satisfy the obsession, just like it is to satisfy and addiction, instead of mounting the struggle to fight it.

Yes, that fight is a struggle and there is hurt and sadness and anxiety in it. But, we act against obsessions and addictions because they represent the mind literally lying to us, convincing us that something that is wrong is something we need.