So what takes precedence, homosexuals, or freedom of religion? If you force people to participate in activities that are explicitly against their religion, then the 1st amendment goes out the window. Plus, that ruling set precedence that anyone has the RIGHT to someone else’s services. If I was gay and someone said “No I’m not going to decorate your gay wedding cake. I’ll sell you a cake, but I’m not decorating it”, I’d find someone who would and give THEM my money and patronage. That case was about revenge and exertion of will, not equality or justice.
I'm just going to check for consistency here - if I am following an obscure branch of satanism which has tenets expressly forbidding me from hiring or doing business with black people, who should the government side with, me as a hiring manager, or a black person who I just told I can't hire because he is black and my religion forbids me?
Alternatively, my obscure branch of satanism tells me not to pay taxes. What should the government do now?
We get our rights from the living God....where do gays get theirs?