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Originally Posted by MathGeek
The point of the 1st amendment is to allow individual citizens to exercise their faith and conscience without the burden to prove that it is reasonable or right.
The point of the 13th amendment is an absolute ban on involuntary servitude within the US.
I notice you avoided the question about how forcing citizens to violate their faith and conscience in performing labor in support of homosexual weddings is not involuntary servitude.
The arguments I have heard focus on whether the forced servitude is justified or reasonable, since it is clearly involuntary.
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MG I am against same sex marriage based on my religious beliefs.
I think you are misinterpreting the meaning of "involuntary servitude".
Business owners have a right to serve the public and it IS voluntary... they have chosen to open a public business. This business is privately owned but it is in service to the general public.
Under our government, they do not have a right to refuse that public service based on religion, race, or sexual orientation.
If I decide to sell you a boat and you show up to my house and you are hispanic... I can tell you to get the hell out and I'm not selling my boat... I thought you said your name was JOHN.... not JAUN.
If I open a business to sell boats and you show up to buy one I can't refuse to sell it to you based on your race. I would be breaking the law.
The whole WALMART cake thing with the confederate flag is a tough one... If they told the person "I am not baking it because it's a racist symbol" then I believe they are breaking the law because they have brought race into it.
If they just simply refused to bake it, the burden of proof would be on the person to prove it was racially related.