The Supreme Court has released a litany of litigious liabilities. It has ruled on affirmative action, student loan relief, sabbath’s, State power over federal elections and now the mysterious case of don’t write gay (if you don’t want to) in a first amendment challenge to Colorado’s anti-discrimination laws. Of all the cases, this case is the most troubling for me because I don’t have the capacity to understand it. The other cases have some basis under the law but this one, in my opinion, has a very murky connection to the first amendment. Leeettt’s review….

A Colorado web designer challenged the State’s anti-discrimination laws by stating that her religious beliefs would not allow her to write “gay stuff” for wedding websites, that she could make the website as long as it doesn’t have words that promote same sex marriages. The web designer brought the suit to the court only on the sole basis of same-sex marriages and not on any other applicable religious grounds, like I can’t write for Jewish or Muslim religious ceremonies or I can’t write for atheists. That she singled out the LGBTQIA to Z but no S community and leaves every other aspect of the religion out of it, is, on its face, discriminatory. In Christianity, you believe in Christ to reach the kingdom of heaven and if you don’t then you are departing from the religion’s core belief, so would this web designer design and write for a bar mitzsvah? Wicca gatherings? Ramadan? Well, that is promoting different beliefs from her Christian beliefs, isn’t it? It goes against the Christian core beliefs but her lawsuit didn’t mention this aspect because I’m assuming she wouldn’t have a problem with it. I’m surprised that this topic didn’t come up in the hearing or wasn’t brought up by the defendants of the anti-discrimination laws. To state that I will not serve gay people on a religious belief but will serve other people that, by all accounts, are sinning the same under the Christian doctrine by not believing in Christ or following his teachings, is simply singling out a particular aspect of a religion to further your discriminatory behavior. If your only problem is with gay people and not anyone else that doesn’t conform to your religion, then you are just using religion as an excuse for your bigotry.

Religion, if it does anything, teaches compassion and understanding. It also says that the Lord would be the arbiter of any sins committed, not web designers. It also states that you must treat all people the way you would like to be treated and that no person is absent of sin. To pick and choose which passage of a religious doctrine applies or you want to follow and which one doesn’t or don’t have to follow is like allowing the government to choose which laws they will enforce and which ones they won’t dependent on demographics and/or socioeconomics and/or any other factor. If you are going to rule on Religious beliefs then you must rule on what the whole doctrine says, not just the parts you like. Just like the government must rule on the entirety of the law not just the laws they like.

Golden Rule, precept in the Gospel of Matthew (7:12): “In everything, do to others what you would have them do to you. . . .” This rule of conduct is a summary of the Christian’s duty to his neighbor and states a fundamental ethical principle

I hope this makes sense….

And please stop attacking my Christian religion with your crazy interpretations… A lot like the Title VII, everyone is welcome in the Christian faith without bias to any race, color, religion, sex, sexual preference and national origin. Only God reserves the right to judge.