[Night Hides Not]

I need some help with this. I am against bills like these, because I think they'll open the floodgates to Sharia Law. IMO, this falls under the guise of "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's." If you're going to run a business in today's USA, then the rules that govern commerce should be followed (unless you're Warren Buffett or some other crony capitalist Obamabot).

Ordinary people can call gay marriage whatever they want. For me, marriage is a sacrament that comes from God, and is only between a man and a woman.

[Slyfox]

Mark Levin is explaining this issue quite well today.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I don’t follow your take on the law, not sure if you are serious. The law is unequivocally correct.

To me it is a very simple matter of what one places at a higher level on a hierarchy of rights or principles. The free exercise of religion is a very profound right, embodied as it is under the First Amendment. The prohibition against discrimination is a manmade distinction. By that measure, it exists at a lower level on any hierarchy of rights.

But more insidiously, the precise purpose of the law was and is to protect observant religious people from being compelled by the police power of government to overthrow their own religious beliefs; in other words, it is a government mandated and (apparently) now publicly-ratified overthrow of the First Amendment!

Now, a Neo-Nazi can walk into your Jewish bakery and demand a Swastika-shaped pastry and if you do not serve him/her, the government can compel you to toss out your religious beliefs by fining you, ruinously.