jonathan180iq
Well-Known Member
In all seriousness, what is stop someone under the protection of this law from denying service to the black community, or to Jews, or to Muslims, because their version of religious belief tells them that those people are not equal to the righteous whites of the Midwest?
I think we can try and hide behind this idea of religious protection as much as we want, but it's hard to deny the purpose of this law being simply to sanction and protect bigotry.
No one's religious freedom's are being infringed upon by gay people existing. No one is forcing any business to do anything they they don't want to do. Those measures were already established. Chick-fil-a famously makes a perfect example. They close on Sunday and their CEO openly doesn't like homsexuality. Did the government jump down their throats and force them to only hire gay workers? Was the CEO outed in a government backed coup detat for his beliefs? Did a local militia make them kneel before the mighty hand of Ra?
No. Of course not.
And sense there are no laws forcing religious views to be subdued, there is absolutely no reason to have a law "protecting" something that isn't (and was never) being threatened.
Religious freedom is about being free and able to practice whatever the hell you want whenever and however the hell you want to because those beliefs are central to your understanding of yourself and world around you. It's the legislation of religious views, which are not shared or held by every single member of a community, that need to be constricted, not expanded.
On that matter, "Religious views" are about as valid a thing as me saying I don't like mushrooms. I don't like mushrooms and I have a cookbook that references mushrooms being bad for you. Do I get a law banning mushroom farmers from selling mushrooms in my town? Do I get a law protecting my right to openly discriminate against people who want mushrooms served with their meals? I should! It's my religious belief!
You know what you're gonna tell me about my hatred of mushrooms?
"Get over it."
And I will, because that's what adults do.
I don't eat mushrooms. I don't order them on my food. I'll pick them if they show up on my pizza. But I don't bellyache about mushrooms existing and request that there be laws protecting my right to hate mushrooms. I don't rally up an entire political movement focused on helping me ban mushrooms from being sold in my town. I don't picket mushroom farms, teaching about the folly of mushroom consumption... I don't do that because the rights of other human beings to consume mushrooms is just as valid as my right to think mushroom eaters are idiots. I don't get special treatment because I wear an anti-mushroom pin when I march around town. I don't get that kind of special treatment because it would be absolutely absurd to ask for it, and even more so if my society actually gave it to me....
Don't think hatred of mushrooms has anything to do with the RFRA? Ask yourself them how you'd feel if the dreaded Shariah Law was sanctioned, protected, and allowed in certain sections of larger cities because the predominant communities of those cities were hard line Muslims... What's the difference? It's their religious belief. It should be allowed to flourish, using the logic of this new law, right? After all, their interpretation of the Koran doesn't promote hatred and violence,it's simply them enacting the will and desires of the almighty god upon humanity.
Thus is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
I think we can try and hide behind this idea of religious protection as much as we want, but it's hard to deny the purpose of this law being simply to sanction and protect bigotry.
No one's religious freedom's are being infringed upon by gay people existing. No one is forcing any business to do anything they they don't want to do. Those measures were already established. Chick-fil-a famously makes a perfect example. They close on Sunday and their CEO openly doesn't like homsexuality. Did the government jump down their throats and force them to only hire gay workers? Was the CEO outed in a government backed coup detat for his beliefs? Did a local militia make them kneel before the mighty hand of Ra?
No. Of course not.
And sense there are no laws forcing religious views to be subdued, there is absolutely no reason to have a law "protecting" something that isn't (and was never) being threatened.
Religious freedom is about being free and able to practice whatever the hell you want whenever and however the hell you want to because those beliefs are central to your understanding of yourself and world around you. It's the legislation of religious views, which are not shared or held by every single member of a community, that need to be constricted, not expanded.
On that matter, "Religious views" are about as valid a thing as me saying I don't like mushrooms. I don't like mushrooms and I have a cookbook that references mushrooms being bad for you. Do I get a law banning mushroom farmers from selling mushrooms in my town? Do I get a law protecting my right to openly discriminate against people who want mushrooms served with their meals? I should! It's my religious belief!
You know what you're gonna tell me about my hatred of mushrooms?
"Get over it."
And I will, because that's what adults do.
I don't eat mushrooms. I don't order them on my food. I'll pick them if they show up on my pizza. But I don't bellyache about mushrooms existing and request that there be laws protecting my right to hate mushrooms. I don't rally up an entire political movement focused on helping me ban mushrooms from being sold in my town. I don't picket mushroom farms, teaching about the folly of mushroom consumption... I don't do that because the rights of other human beings to consume mushrooms is just as valid as my right to think mushroom eaters are idiots. I don't get special treatment because I wear an anti-mushroom pin when I march around town. I don't get that kind of special treatment because it would be absolutely absurd to ask for it, and even more so if my society actually gave it to me....
Don't think hatred of mushrooms has anything to do with the RFRA? Ask yourself them how you'd feel if the dreaded Shariah Law was sanctioned, protected, and allowed in certain sections of larger cities because the predominant communities of those cities were hard line Muslims... What's the difference? It's their religious belief. It should be allowed to flourish, using the logic of this new law, right? After all, their interpretation of the Koran doesn't promote hatred and violence,it's simply them enacting the will and desires of the almighty god upon humanity.
Thus is the Religious Freedom Restoration Act
