Where should there be "The right to refuse service"?

I'm sure I'd help out anyone who had been beaten and left dying in the road, Taq, homosexual or whoever it was. If they get shot while entering my bakery I'd also call 911 and do what I could to stop the bleeding. Any comparison with the state's punishing me for refusing to honor a gay wedding is ludicrous to an extreme.

You would have to show me some christian theology in order for me to refuse it. You haven't shown me any. There where shared beliefs between hundreds of thousands of christian segregationists, as well. Numbers do not mean you are right.

As I recall nobody fought the desegregation law once it was in place, because it was not a law of God but in fact a violation of a law of God.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Where is the law of God that forbids christians from baking cakes for gay weddings?

Absolutely not true. You do not have to recognize it in order to refuse it. You do not have to agree with it, you do not have to have a clue to it no matter how many times it's been explained to you. As I already said way back there the freedom of religion does not depend on anybody's agreeing with our beliefs, the whole point is to tolerate disagreement. And in this case even the inability to grasp the simplest points about our beliefs. You don't have to understand a thing about what Christians believe for Christians to have a claim to religious freedom.

Nowhere you'll ever see or understand.

Yeah that's proof...Heaven's Gate - Wikipedia(religious_group)

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Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious Millenarian group based in San Diego, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931—1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927—1985).[1] On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group who had committed mass suicide[2] in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet Hale—Bopp...

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Ah, so it's inside your head!Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

It must be next to the command to keep blacks and whites separate.

It's proof that I'm not alone in my beliefs by a long shot. What is it you think you are proving?

.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

All you have put forth is your own prejudices. That freedom of religion stops when you start taking away the freedoms of other people. You do realize that, don't you? I grasp your beliefs just fine. Your beliefs have absolutely nothing to do with the Bible. They have to do with your prejudices, and your need to punish gay people by treating them as second class citizens. You hide behind the Bible, as if that will cover up your bigotry.Jesus wept.

I'm pretty sure I've demonstrated that ignorance loves company. Bigots never seem to have any problem finding like minded bretheren.

Stunning. Absolutely stunning. Willful ignorance or just cluelessness?

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As I recall nobody fought the desegregation law once it was in place, because it was not a law of God but in fact a violation of a law of God.

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Buzsaw was insisting otherwise throughout his time here. It took until the year 2000 for Bob Jones University to drop their ban on inter-racial dating. And then there was the opposition to desegregationg schools, busing pupils in: WikipediaDesegregation was a hot issue.

I accept that you genuinely believe that yours is the one true God, that your actions are based on your sincere belief that this is His will and that you thus believe such actions to be divinely jusified.I also accept that other people who undertake actions we might both find reprehensible (e.g. Muslim suicide bombers) sincerely believe that their actions are the will of the God they genuinely believe to be true and that they consider their actions to be also divinely justified.The probem is that with all this divine justification and proclaimed yet contradictory claims of knowing the will of the true God going on we can't possibly satisfy everyone in the laws we formulate can we?So what do we do?Well we could pick one of these belief systems, sign up to one particular "will of God" and base our laws on that. This is what Islamist fundamentalists who want to impose Shariah law would like. This is presumably what Christians such as yourself would like. We could go the theocracy route. We could do that.Or we could ignore all this self proclaimed knowledge about the will of God and base our laws on the idea that everyone has a right to believe what they want but not to impose their particular beliefs and prejudices on others. This is called the secularist route.Neither option will satisfy everyone. The theocracy route will only please those who follow that very specific and particular form of theism. The secular route will fail to please those such as yourself who think their particular form of theism should hold special privelige.It ultimately boils down to you wanting your belief system to have special privelige and being very upset and frustrated that not everybody else agrees that you and your particular ilk have special knoweldge of the will of God. But every theocratist feels the same.