when did religious freedom become a constitutional right not to be offended?

[KRU1996]

The US Constitution favors no religion as the government cannot favor and establish any church/religion. The US Constitution is religiously neutral. Those who pervert religious to worship as one wishes by falsely converting it into a call for a religious civil rights movement are at best imbeciles and at worse the religious equivalents of a Hitler-Torquemada hybrid. Now people on the political left and political right have screwed up equally by assuming that they have an inherent constitutional right not to be offended. Freedom of Speech and Association and Religion are constitutionally protected private matters. When the public becomes involved no matter what one believes privately one does not have a right to discriminate and prevent that person or persons from getting a marriage license or a drivers' license or a building permit or a gun license or a concealed carry permit of the person or persons receiving the benefit.item meet the criteria established. If one works for the government or works for an entity that accepts taxpayer-public money in anyway then one's privately held beliefs do not allow one to discriminate. No the privately owned bakery does not have to bake the cake for the gay wedding and the pediatrician who is in private practice does not have to accept the child of gay parents as a patient. The exception for doctors comes in because a doctor must not violate the Hippocratic Oath to not do harm in an emergency situation or an exceptional situation of unforeseen circumstances.

 

[louis33705]

Thank you for the post. It is a very complex mentality in a free democratic society. People have been discriminated against or have accused others of discriminating against them for race, religion, ethnic origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation and the list goes on and on. You mentioned the refusal of baking a cake for a gay wedding. What about a bakery refusing to make a cake with an anti-gay inscription?

Is it discrimination, double standard, violation of a person's religious beliefs or a violation of a person's refusal to be part of hateful expression? I have posted this video on this forum before. This baker's refusal had nothing to do with religious discrimination but her own desire to represent her own product as a symbol of love.

 

[peterh6308]

Great post and comments Kru and Louis. As written some 200 plus years ago the separation of church and state by our Founding Fathers is still in "the limelight" and I feel they got it right back then. Go back and read The Constitution it still amazes me the brilliant minds of these men to forsee how this paper would govern our country and still be credible many decades later.