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I am UNBELIEVABLY fucking tired of "my sincerely held religious belief means that I cannot do my job." Jobs, it turns out, are not generally assigned. CHOICES WERE MADE. You went to pharmacy school. You applied to be a county clerk. You had OPTIONS.
I? Did not get options. There was not a career fair for organs at my school. My uterus, and my hormonal dependence on the chemicals it produces, were assigned to me, not chosen. I did not select my neurochemistry or my sexual orientation from a fun list of suggestions.
No one came to my middle school to speak on the wonders of neuroatypicality and lesbianism and combining the two and doesn't that sound like a fun life choice?
Also, a little tired here of one specific set (Christian) of sincerely held religious beliefs (Christianity) somehow being better than all the others, when this is supposedly a nation (Christian) without an official (Christian) religion.
My sincerely held personal beliefs are mostly between the gods and me. I don't put them up for debate, but I do my best to live by them. This means I don't take jobs whose duties would require me to violate them. I don't take the jobs, then demand they change for me.
And I do feel that if the universe wants anything from us, as intelligent beings, it wants us to be kind. Kindness is LITERALLY a pillar of my spirituality. I don't always live up to my own ideals; I try.
Saying "your marriage makes me uncomfortable, so I don't want you to have it anymore" is profoundly UNKIND, and violates my sincerely held religious beliefs. So how come someone else's beliefs beat mine? Can you prove they believe more strongly? I've read the Bible.
Very few of these "good Christians" are being either the person Jesus told them to be OR the person Mr. Rogers knew they could be.
