Suppose the law requires all businesses to serve all customers without
regard to religious freedom? How should we handle these situations?
1. Should a Quaker landlord, who is a religious pacifist, be required to
rent a building to a gun dealer? Or should religious liberty provide an
exception to the law?
2. Should a landlord be required, over his sincere religious objections,
to rent office space to the local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan?
3. Should a Jewish baker be required to decorate a cake for the local chapter of the American Nazi party?
4. Should a Muslim photographer be required to photograph a bachelor
party that includes women stripping for the entertainment of the
groom-to-be and his friends?
5. Should a Christian building owner, who believes in God's love of
animals, be required to rent a factory for a fur coat manufacturer? Or
for a butcher shop or slaughterhouse?
6. Should a Catholic adoption agency, which believes in the Biblical
ideal of marriage as a relationship between one man and one woman, be
required to place children with same-sex married couples?
7. What about a conservative Christian photographer who declines to participate in same-sex weddings?
Sometimes it is best to put yourself in the shoes of the other guy and
see how he or she may look at issues that seem clear to you.
