Ironic that the left is always slamming businesses for being unscrupulous. Until business starts to try asserting their moral and religious scruples. At that point, the left wants businesses to be unscrupulous. The mind of a liberal...an unpenetrable thicket of deceit, desire for control, greed, contradiction and hate.
True, but on the other hand, if one doesn’t live one’s beliefs, one is committing the sin of hypocrisy.
Several leftist articles I have read in the last few days made a point of what is truly behind all of this. Basically their point is that the Federal RFRA was passed to protect the minority religious freedom but that it should not be extended to the majority. Christians/Jews are the majority so they should not have this protection.
They also object to individuals having a right to use the RFRA as a defense in private civil suits. So if a person sues you for not providing a service that you object to based on your deeply held religious conviction they don’t want you to force them to prove that you don’t have a 1st ammendment right, (and a RFRA backed right), to refuse service to them.
A prime example would be an OB/GYN who is a devout Catholic being sued because he refused to perform an abortion. They want to destroy him/her but if the OB/GYN has the right to argue that his/her deeply held religious convictions prevent him/her from performing an abortion the complainant may lose the suit.
Keep in mind that in “civil rights” lawsuits under federal law, (section 1989), there is no limit on financial damages.