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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& #39;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& #39;t put them up for debate, but I do my best to live by them. This means I don& #39;t take jobs whose duties would require me to violate them. I don& #39;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& #39;t always live up to my own ideals; I try.
Saying "your marriage makes me uncomfortable, so I don& #39;t want you to have it anymore" is profoundly UNKIND, and violates my sincerely held religious beliefs. So how come someone else& #39;s beliefs beat mine? Can you prove they believe more strongly? I& #39;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.
