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To: Mr Rogers
Do you have First Amendment rights to discriminate in a public business?

Do you consider it "discrimination" if somebody does not cater to your every whim?

If you want to star in your own porno movie, do you think it is "discrimination" if the local photographer you want to hire to do the filming tells you to get lost?

If my religious beliefs say that Conduct X is a sin, I have a First Amendment to be true to my religion and not be a party to Conduct X. In my own profession, that would include my First Amendment right not to participate in the abortion process.

If you do not like that, that's just too damned bad.

If you consider that "discrimination", that's just too damned bad.

The Constitution specifically guarantees the freedom of religion. The Constitution does not guarantee you the right to "have it your way". That would be Burger King.

66 posted on 04/11/2008 4:57:29 PM PDT by Polybius
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To: Polybius

My religious beliefs say that homosexuality is sin. If I convert the empty bedrooms in my house into an apartment and try to rent it, I won’t have the legal right to refuse to rent it to homosexuals.

A porno film, as I’ve already noted, may be allowed as going too far...but photographing a homosexual ‘marriage’ may not. The law is written broadly, and gives the Human Rights Commission and the Courts a lot of latitude.

Abortions may be one of the few things NOT mentioned in NM’s Human Rights Act. Homosexuality is.

My point is simply that many posters claim you can do/sell most anything you want to any one you do or do not want. That is not true. It may have been 100 years ago, but it certainly is not now. I would suggest anyone who sees ‘anti-discrimination laws’ arising in their legislatures fight them tooth and nail, because they will be administered by activists.


67 posted on 04/11/2008 5:23:48 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (Let's win Congress - the Presidency is lost!)
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