The US constitution guarantees freedom of religion and freedom of association.The government has no business regulating thought. It is absolutely bizarre that an official sworn to uphold that constitution is expected to surrender those rights if he is to hold public office as a judge. This is really an attempt by the Left to encode their bizarre politically correct thought as a prerequisite to holding public office.
Always the appeal was to "fairness." But in a free society, people dealing with their own property always have a right to favor those whom they choose to favor. It is not about taking anything away from any body. It is simply a right to favor whomever you wish, so long as you are simply dealing with your own property, or associations.
What avowed homosexuals are now claiming is outrageous, but it is really only a slight extension of the half-century old denial of the right of individuals to favor those who shared their religious beliefs. Because of the offensive public antics of some of the proponents, it seems more extreme; but the right to be guided by one's own moral outlook, has already been taken away in the name of "fairness."
William Flax