Civil Rights Groups Are Ready To Sue Trump If He Signs A Broad Religious Freedom Order

[J_William_Ryan]

3. The notion that those with a religious objection

to same-sex marriage, transgender people, and reproductive choices are in need of ‘protection’ is as ignorant as it is idiotic.

Those hostile to the equal protection rights of gay and transgender Americans and the privacy rights of women are at liberty to practice their bigotry and hatred with impunity.

Indeed, necessary, proper, and Constitutional regulatory policy – such as public accommodations laws that prohibit businesses from discriminating against gay Americans – in no manner adversely affects the religious liberty of those hostile to gay and transgender Americans.

The courts have consistently held that religious believes are not an ‘excuse’ to disobey just and proper laws; and that requiring citizens to follow just and proper laws perceived by theists to ‘violate’ their religious dogma is does not violate the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.