“Will Christian Businesses be FORCED to cater to gay weddings or civil union ceremonies when they dont want to?”
Good question... but I don’t think any business should be forced to do anything they don’t want to do. Just like any person shouldn’t be forced to provide a service they don’t want to. If a business wants to discriminate they can... and probably already do.
On the question on employee fairness that’s tougher, but really businesses already force employees into healthy lifestyles. I would think businesses can make those choices.
It would be alot easier for business to say we will provide benefits to married people but not to civil unions, than to change the definition of marriage. We can then talk about the right for government to regulate business practices rather than talk about my church saying a marriage between homosexuals or whatever is the same as hetrosexuals.
Marriage is a religious term.
Well, if the answer to my question is ‘NO’, there will be no coercion against one’s religious beliefs, then I am all FOR whatever gays want to do with their lives.
Businesses should be FREE to recognize of NOT recognize such unions.
I just want this FORMALIZED INTO LAW — Call it the ‘Defense of Religious Beliefs Act’ (DORBA).