Earlier this week I wrote a post, Why the “Religious Freedom” discussion is both disingenuous and dangerous. Considering the fact that those most obsessed with the need to protect “religious freedom” are also some of our country’s most homophobic political leaders should make you think. Couple that with the fact that the discussion is a reaction to marriage equality laws and one need not be Sherlock Holmes to read these clues.
This latest debate on ‘religious freedom’ is nothing more than an escape clause for homophobic business owners to refuse service to the LGBT community. If Christian business owners were really concerned (for their immortal soul) about having to serve people who violated their religious convictions then why are they serving customers who are divorced, practice a different religion, known adulterers or liars (and the list continues)? Why is it that only the LGBT community that seems to be causing this crises of conscious? It is because they are bigots using religion as a shield to disguise and and confuse the debate.
Did you know that divorce is identified as a sin approximately two dozen times in the Bible? By contrast homosexuality is discussed less than ten times so why is divorce not considered twice the sin of homosexuality? These devout Christians should be focused on all the divorcées in their community who have made a mockery of “traditional marriage”, which they supposedly hold so dear.
The Bible is riddled with all sorts of “sins” like getting your hair cut, eating shellfish, getting a tattoo, etc… yet these behaviors don’t seem to offend the supposedly ‘devout’ Christian business owners. It seems to me if religious freedom is being called into question then only business owners who truly observe every tenant of their faith should be allowed to claim this need for an exemption. For all those who are picking and choosing their religious convictions, it sounds more like an excuse to get the government to approve discrimination – and that is unconstitutional.
BosGuy 
You forget that many of them are divorced themselves. That or if you look closely enough at their baggage, a few extramarital affairs might pop out. That one was so bad, Moses had to mention it in his top 10. Also, do you remember Jonathon Saenz? There are people who will always find ways to disguise their naked hate in the mantle of morals or religion, or something else new. There was a “scientist” in Uganda that tried to disprove sexuality with magnets after all, so anything’s possible.
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14 Marriages – WOW! Preserving the “sanctity” of Christian marriage one divorce or annulment at a time!!!!
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