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istara  ·  3094 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religious Freedom - HELP ME

I'm an atheist and a secularist.

If you run a bakery where a cake with "Hail Satan" on it is not part of your normal product offering, then you should not be required to make it.

If you make regular wedding cakes, and you simply refuse to sell one of your existing cake to a gay couple, that's not okay.

If you receive any public money or similar for your business, then you should be required to serve all customers. So if you work for a council, or the government, as a registrar, then absolutely you should be required to register gay unions or resign.

If you are a minister in a private religion, or an independent civil celebrant, it's up to you whom you choose to preside over. Again, any public money involved, then you cannot discriminate.

If your church receives any public funding, and rents its premises from time to time for non-religious events there as many churches do, then it cannot refuse a gay event.

If you're a pharmacist and you won't prescribe certain medication due to religious beliefs, you should resign.