Serious question: What happens when religious freedoms collide?
Let's say, person A claims a deeply held religious believe and sues for the right to be accommodated so that belief will go un-violated.
Let's say, person B claims a deeply held religious believe and sues for the right to be accommodated so that belief will go un-violated.
Now, what if the claims of A and B are mutually exclusive?
For example:
What if a Christian denies service to a homosexual on account that homosexuality is illegal in the Old Testament, but said homosexual is member of a religion that believes that all people are equal, regardless of sexual preference, and should be treated as equals?
There is no scenario where both religious freedoms can be upheld at the same time.
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in favor of the RW self-identified christian.
In several of the most liberal localities in Indiana, there are anti-discrimination laws in place to protect LGBT persons from discrimination.
In the conservative localities, no such protections are in place. The way the Indiana law is written, the government will be liable for costs of litigation if they lose a case in which they are trying to protect the rights of an LGBT person who has been discriminated against. The government would then have to seriously assess their possibilities of winning a discrimination case brought by a victimized LGBT indivdual.
I believe, in reality, that this law is primarily a vehicle for RW self-identified christians to express and justify their hatred for LGBT, and is a blanket attempt by RW self-identified christians to humiliate LGBT persons, and to self-affirm and legally affirm that they are *superior* to some group.
The ability to legally discriminate against LGBT is actually more important to most of them than the actual act of discriminating against LGBT.
At this very moment, all across the US, RW self-identified christians are smugly and joyfully celebrating the fact that they can legally express their hate and self-conceived superiority over their chosen vicitms in Indiana, and their dearest wish is to be able to do this everywhere in the world.
If all of a sudden every LGBT person magically became straight, RW self-identified christians would be totally lost, because they would have no one to hate, and therefore, they would have no basis or reason for their religious beliefs.
I suspect they would then go after the Jewish people, if they could not find another easy victim group like LGBT who are not specifically recognized as fully federally protected under the Constitution from predation and discrimination by christofascists.
