Leftists: Establishing a Religion

[rangerrebew]

December 13, 2017
Leftists: Establishing a Religion
By Tom Trinko

In the case of Jack Philips, the baker who doesn’t want to be forced to support a gay “wedding,” leftists have revealed their freedom-hating fascist fanaticism and their desire to establish their faith as a government-mandated religion.

Religion interacts with politics by defining moral and behavioral codes. For example, Catholics believe murder is wrong, a moral code, and that you shouldn’t eat meat on the Fridays of Lent (a penance that was ended in 1984, but is recently making a comeback), a behavioral code. Hence establishing a religion in the context of the 1st Amendment would involve providing preferential treatment to the moral and behavioral code of one particular faith, as the English government did with the Church of England.

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[goatprairie]

This issue has been gone over numerous times on other threads, but the principle remains the same: there is a difference in a business  serving a customer and creating something special for a customer.
If a bakery can  be forced to bake a particular style of cake, then any business can be forced to make/create whatever a customer demands. That is not how freedom works.