Only the twisted logic of the left could argue that discriminating against one group, attempting to deny them access to society because of their religious beliefs forcing them to live in communes with each other, is okay to stop their imaginary discrimination against others.
There's no discrimination here. If your religion says it's OK to murder nonbelievers, it's still against secular law. Are you being oppressed for not being allowed to kill heathens? Or are you simply paying the price of living in a regulated and civil society? If you really feel like you HAVE to murder nonbelievers in order to practice your religion, go ahead and try it and see how far your argument gets with a judge. By the same token, you don't have a right to treat some members of the public differently from others on the basis of race, age (over 40) or religious practice, as those are protected classes here in the United States. In some places, sexual practice and gender identity (which would then apply equally to heterosexuality and cisgendered identity) are given the same elevated status. Absent that status, people are free to discriminate on that basis.
In Indiana, we have specifically enshrined in law the right of the religious to treat some other humans differently on the basis of religious belief. This is problematic because in many cases there's no specific religious cause for doing so, at least in primary scriptures of major religions.
Most Christians believe abortion is wrong.
By
most you mean
some, right? Or is this a "No True Scotsman" issue for you? I suspect the percentage of Unitarians or Methodists who feel that way about it is rather different from the percentage of Southern Baptists. Moreover, many people (including, thankfully, a enough judges) do understand that it's a deeply personal choice that depends on a huge number of prevailing circumstances and that it's probably incorrect to make that judgment for other people and to give that judgment a place in law. Some christians (in my opinion, the better ones) also recognize that not everyone has the same religious faith they have and that we do not live in a christian theocracy.
You might want to read "
The Only Moral Abortion is My Abortion", which specifically discusses what happens when a clinic worker encounters someone normally on the picket line waiting for services. It's a well-written and interesting piece.
Doctors who hold those views don't perform abortions. I don't see public outcry from the left that women looking to have an abortion are being discriminated against by those doctors. Those women instead go to somewhere that will provide them the service they're after.
As a rule, we don't ask physicians to work outside their specialization absent an emergency circumstance. Are there special cakes or photographs for gay couples now?
I would expect any physician to know the rudimentary procedure, just as I'd expect them to be able to give a basic neurological exam, perform an appendectomy or take blood pressure.
A Kosher or Halal meat market won't sell pork. Some people like to eat pork. I don't see people outraged that the store owners and employees are discriminating against pork eaters by practicing their religious beliefs and demand they accommodate pork eaters by selling pork. Instead people who want to buy pork go buy it somewhere else.
No one is asking Christian bookstores to start carrying Hustler. No one is forcing Baptist ministers to marry gays. But if a member of the general public walks into a business that is open to the general public and asks for goods or services normally offered by that business, that good or service should be provided, regardless of the race, religion, gender pronoun or sex hole preference of the customer. I occasionally have work for people I believe are terrible bigots. I do it and I keep my opinions to myself unless I'm specifically and personally confronted regarding their beliefs. If you have a store or sell a service to the public, you're just going to have to accept that occasionally you're going to have to bake a cake for a sodomite or a Jew.
