Religious Rights Wins Over Equal Rights

Whatever happened to the separation of Church and State in this country? The Supreme Court just ruled in favor of a cake maker who didn’t want to make a wedding cake for a gay couple and won due to his religious belief that marriage is between a man and a woman. Since when does personal religious beliefs get to spill over into   commerce? Whether you believe in gay marriage or not, what about the freedoms of law abiding people? ISIS followers into their religion believe that there is no need for history or books and destroy museums, schools and burn books due to their religious beliefs? Should that be allowed? If a gun shop owner believes that divorce is against his religious belief and knows that someone wants a weapon to kill his x-wife should he be allowed to sell that weapon? My point is that unless you have the intention to disturb the peace, injure someone our laws should protect consumers to purchase what ever they want despite our individual religious beliefs as long as we are abiding by the laws of this country. But now the law has changed to allow people to discriminate due to religious beliefs. How is that a fair society?

We all know that religion has caused more war and strife in the world than any other form of belief. When our government’s highest court crosses that line of justice because of “religious beliefs” we are crossing into the traps of Naziism, Dictatorships and all sorts of discrimination of good people who just want to  live out their lives not harming a single other soul without undue judgement or bias. America used to be the land of “we the people” and acceptance of all people from all lands, “give me your tired, your poor” and welcomed all races and beliefs as long as we didn’t harm each other and lived peaceful lives. Religions were kept in our places of worships and not in our food stores or other places of commerce. Religion is a broad word where people could believe in just about anything these days religiously and that is dangerous to a good safe society when religious belief spills over into discrimination as the abortion rights issue is being attacked by religion.

This ruling is not about a wedding cake for gay men. It is about bias and our freedoms being violated and to have our highest court to rule in favor of the cake maker’s right to refuse to bake the cake because of his personal religious beliefs against gay marriage is a violation of all our rights as good human beings that just might not have the same exact religious beliefs that you have. We have the right to buy the damn  cake that everyone else  has the right to buy and it is none of your business who we want to eat it with!

The gay couple won in the Colorado State courts. Colorado is one of the 21 states that prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. The Colorado Civil Rights Commission ruled in favor of the gay couple. The decision was upheld by the Colorado Court of Appeals. Aided by a Christian Advocacy Corporation, the baker then took his case to the Supreme Court. The baker thought that his first Amendment rights of freedom of religion and   speech were violated by the Chicago courts. The Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision in favor of the baker’s religious right not to make the damn cake for the gay couple. It is a victory for the religious groups in this country. So, a law abiding citizen who just wants to buy a cake is “disrespectful and shows hostility towards the sincere religious belief?” Can this ruling open the flood gates for bigotry? It all proves that the fight for equal rights is never over.