re: Pastor being sued for anti gay stance here in the US.

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Expand on this for me, please. I'm curious about the direction you are headed here.

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Your right to freely exercise your religion is separate and apart from your right to engage in business transactions. Put another way, believing that homosexuality is immoral is simply that: a belief. You can believe it, preach it, to your heart's content.

Legally speaking, one can believe, and preach, that blacks are inferior to whites. (Before anyone flies off the handle, no, I'm not comparing the beliefs. Shut up and stay on topic).

The Civil Rights Act destroyed the property rights of private business owners and forced them to do business with people they did not want to do business with. As long religious people could continue discriminating in their businesses, they didn't seem to care that Heart of Atlanta Motel was being forced to violate their beliefs.

Having "religious beliefs" doesn't exempt you from the law. So, if the religious want to complain, they should step up and fight the entire Act, not just the loss of their personal exemption.