Shall business owners have a right to refuse services on religious grounds?

[ForevrLonely29]

I have seen a quite a few instances where business owners have been penalized for refusing services to the alphabet soup (lgbtqrstuv...) community due to their sincerely held religious beliefs and faith.

I stand with these business owners.

What's next? Are we going to require pastors and preachers to wed homosexuals? Are we going to require private Christian schools to hire atheists? When are we going to draw the line?

Yes, we shall protect that right to refuse

No, we should require business owners to go against their faith

[Daniela1982]

That is like people being forced to participate in a Trump rally if they don't believe in Trump. So they therefore have political freedom. Likewise a Christian/Muslim, etc., should not have to participate in selling things/services to anyone or anything that goes against their religious beliefs. That is what having freedom of religion is. Unfortunately, that does not happen in America, like when a Christian bakery doesn't want to make a wedding cake for a gay couple. The crybabies play the gay card instead of just going to another bakery, like a straight person would simply do.

[Nirmroth]

If the person can do their work like everyone else then who cares what they believe in as long as it ain't against the law.

Private christian schools is a whole other level. I assume that you send kids here espacially for that belief so a person who doesn't share the christian faith working there wouldn't make sense.

[Daniela1982]

You would think so, except maybe the janitor.

[Nirmroth]

Sry maybe I am not native enough to get this sentence but what do you mean by that?

[Daniela1982]

"So a person who doesn't share the Christian faith working there wouldn't make sense." But a janitor wouldn't have to be one is what I meant.

[strateguy632]

They should be able to choose but no freedom anymore.