Colorado GOP trying religious freedom

[LynnInDenver]

Only they're calling it "Live and Let Live". http://leg.colorado.gov/sites/default/fi...206_01.pdf

Basically, license to discriminate if you can somehow justify that it's against your religion to NOT discriminate. It's going to be hard to prove that someone doesn't "sincerely" hold it as a religious belief. And, of course, such licensed discrimination makes it harder for anyone who doesn't hew strictly to the "white, straight, cisgendered" stereotypes to simply exist in public.

Actually, you can prove that it is against their "religion" to discriminate.

The Bible states that mankind was created in God's image. If you are human, so is he. If you are less than human, so is he. Exodus 12:49, Leviticus 24:22, Numbers 15:16 and 29 make very clear that we must fight against our tendency to hate those who are different. That we must fight not only for our rights but also for the rights of others, wherever they are, whoever they are, whatever the color of their skin, or the nature of their culture, or whomever they choose to love, because God has said that although they are not in your image, they are in God's.

I'm sure someone will raise a point about the laws against same-sex relationships, or slavery or what not. My answer is that those were compromises made in realization of the fact that humanity can not turn on a dime, but by repeatedly stating the "mission statement" as it were, change does happen.

Ironically, I understand that the cake shop case had to change to a more generic "freedom of my ability to choose speech I support" because they'd found an event he'd baked a cake for celebrating the "marriage" of two dogs, which is technically also something he should have been against if marriage was only to involve one man and one woman.

I do agree that we can certainly argue that any effort to use religion to justify being a discriminatory bigot can be counterpointing by other points in the same texts, including that we can point out all sorts of other things that show they're cherry picking their prohibitions (Wearing a wool-cotton blend? Eat some shrimp this year?).