[backwoods-engineer]

If the County Clerk were a Quaker, could she refuse to issue gun licenses? If she were a Mormon, could she refuse to issue business licenses to liquor stores or coffee shops? If she were an Orthodox Jew, could she refuse to issue a business license to a barbecue restaurant?

Stupid conjecture. The clerk ain't a quaker, and this ain't a gun license. The clerkain't a Mormon, and this ain't a coffee house. The clerk ain't a Jew, and this ain't barbeque.

"Libertarians" love to have liberty, but don't want religious people to have any.

[Coronal]

All of those scenarios are possible. How do you distinguish between this situation and those?