re: Random thoughts from an independent (Please move to the Off-Topic Board)

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We'll see. If the government can force a baker to bake a gay wedding cake, and they can, and have, never say never.

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Bakers are a business. They're not defined by their beliefs, they're defined by economics. Churches aren't classified as a business -- though a huge number of them operate precisely in that manner -- and courts have repeatedly upheld their right to abstain from practices that contradict their beliefs. Teachers at parochial schools have lost court cases over firings, churches have been given broad latitude to run their hierarchy as they see fit, etc. I get the principle that worries people, but it's a false principle based on mistaken assumptions mixed with fearmongering. There's no precedent for comparing a church to a place of employment like a baker or Hobby Lobby.