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Again it's all because reasons.
Um yes that's how thought works.
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You keep defaulting to laws rather than engaging with how they interfere with religious practice.
You keep complaining about laws that do not single out your religion as burdens upon your religion. I asked and I'm still waiting for an answer as to how you are more burdened than a KKK member?
I asked and am still waiting for an answer whether you think walmart or HEB should be able to decide they don't want to serve members of certain religions?
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You don't have a right to someone else's labor for a cake - this isn't the 1950s south where a black man can't get a hotel room at the only place in town.
You literally do in this country. As a Christian you do, as a white man you do, as a black man you do. A big part of the reason this isn't still the 1950s south in some areas is laws like this one help change the culture by force. Again, I'll accept a wholesale argument that NO protections should exist, in which case the entire city of San Fransisco can try to be hostile to certain branches of christianity or go uber woke and only open some businesses to non-whites. I simply don't see how this is a better world. But you've yet to make the argument that NO public accommodation laws should exist, only that you find it burdensome that they apply to Christians.
And what cake have you ever had to bake? How are YOU so burdened by public accommodation laws. Who are you having to serve that you don't want to as you live your oppressed life? Hell I'm probably more burdened by blue laws denying me booze on sunday in a practical sense than you are public accommodation laws.
The only people having to bake cakes are those who spend every day baking cakes of their own choice.
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You're also ignoring the intentional malice found that is present in secular government.
You have yet to demonstrate any significant portion of this that's actually targeting your religion rather than referring to situations where you are asking for government financial sponsorship or violating broad laws against discrimination.
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I know the pretension of a persecution complex really plays to your atheist audience here
It really is a pitch straight over the plate.
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but a Christian parent with kids in public school will likely have anti Christian teaching presented and encouraged. Preferencing one morality over another is replacement, not removal of privilege.
School curriculum should be about teaching facts to kids, the morality presented should be limited to behavior norms between students and teachers. Does you religion saying something isn't true mean we can't teach it in public school? Remember this is a government funded operation, what give you special privileges?
Should we not teach basic earth science, geology, cosmology, or evolution because some sects of Christianity teach that these things are more or less a contrived conspiracy?
I'm not sure what if anything is being taught about gay folks besides they exist and should be treated with kindness as you do others. What exactly is part of the curriculum or is being instructed that you find so hostile to your religion?