If all churches are public places. So are mosques. I’m waiting patiently for the gays to go after mosques and muslim-owned businesses. I’m not holing my breath while I wait though.
Let’s put it this way — the two institutions that the government will leave alone for now are — THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH and the Mosques.
Why? BOTH ARE WELL ORGANIZED, WITH LARGE, VISIBLE SUPPORT FROM HERE AND OVERSEAS.
It is the tiny independent churches that will be the target of persecution first, and then slowly, but surely, the bigger fish will be fried.
It is the Alinsky way.
Remember, the basis of this whole thing is the goal of criminalizing Christianity.
Muslims, mosques, and muslim-owned businesses will be conveniently ignored.
“Gays” are bullies now but as Islam and Sharia grow in influence in and power over W. Europe very soon “gays” will either convert and live out whatever remains of their wretched lives as second-class citizens bereft of any rights or be killed.
I think the ruling in Hosanna Tabor may come into play here. The performing of marriage ceremonies should be considered a ministry of a church payment or non payment do not enter into it. Therefore a church is acting as a religious establishment with the First Amendment protections and rights that implies. What a business’s status is under the tax code has nothing to do with the rights it may exercise under the First Amendment, with that stupid exception about not endorsing candidates for election.