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Originally Posted by PaulS
A number of Repub. pres. candidates are saying she should be allowed to not issue the licenses.
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Here is the exact text of the first amendment regarding religion...
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof"
Nowhere in there, does it say that the right to freely exercise your religion, ends at the door of your office. Nor does it say that the freedom to exercise your religion stops at the point where someone's feelings are hurt.
We give religious exemptions to all kinds of laws. Why doesn't this woman deserve the same freedom? As long as there is someone else in the office who could easily grant the license, then there doesn't need to be an issue unless the activists want to make it an issue, which of course they do.
I am pro gay marriage. I am also pro-constitution.
I can see her getting fired. But put in jail? Because of her Christian beliefs?
Again, why isn't the mayor of every sanctuary city also in jail? Why do they get to violate the laws they don't happen to like, and get away with it?