Quote:I still advocate private property and free association. If we're just looking at this legislative piece all it does is provide individuals who operate private institutions and companies (non-public funding) the protection of refusal to participate in events they oppose for religious purposes. This type of legislation was originally used to protect minority religions like Hinduism and Islam. Just because a Christian might use doesn't change the purpose of the legislation nor it's validity.

 

Regardless of where we are, where we have been and where we will go I maintain that we can not attempt to rank natural rights. One persons rights can not infringe on another persons rights, that includes private property, free association and religious freedom as much as it does anything else.

That's trying to sugarcoat it. It allows legal discrimination in denial service of any kind. 

 

Ranking natural rights? That's not it at all. All rights should be respected until they infringe on others. If a person who is gay wants to buy a pizza but the religion you chose to join vilifies them so you deny them service then you are discriminating. I think there could be a discussion had off this site about what rights are actually natural. 

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