" I can't recall anyone advocating that we adopt the Talmud except you"
I don't want to impose Jewish Law on anybody, including mice elf. I don't want Christian or Muslim Law imposed on me.
Abortion is between a woman and her doctor. Religion is between a person and his God and/or clergy person, not between a person and the public. Christians lost their right to discriminate a long time ago.
Blast From the Past: States Using 'Religious Freedom' to Justify Segregation
....You don't have to look far in American history to find cases of discrimination being defended as "religious freedom." Supporters of slavery, segregation, and interracial marriage bans all invoked Biblical defenses.
In 1946, Mississippi Governor Theodore Bilbo wrote, "[p]urity of race is a gift of God ... And God, in his infinite wisdom, has so ordained it that when man destroys his racial purity, it can never be redeemed."
One of Bilbo's gubernatorial successors added that "the good Lord was the original segregationist."
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court went even further: "[t]he natural law which forbids [racial intermarriage] and that social amalgamation which leads to a corruption of races, is as clearly divine as that which imparted to [the races] different natures."
Having a basis in a religious belief doesn't automatically make a policy good. As a country, we've decided that whether or not a policy is religious, when it infringes on someone else's freedom or causes them harm, it can't be allowed. That's why we have laws like The Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, religion, national origin, and gender.
No matter how devoutly a business owner believes in segregation, he can't refuse service to a customer or fire an employee on the basis of having an interracial marriage.
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