As a pastor should I be  forced to marry two people my conscience says can’t get get married? If I was a lawyer should I be forced to provide a divorce for reasons that are against my convictions? If I was a doctor should I be forced to perform an abortion even though my faith calls it a horrible sin? It would be wrong as a pastor, lawyer or doctor not to help someone because of who they are. That would be discrimination. However I should have the right to follow my conscience with reference to my participation in something with someone – a marriage, a divorce or a termination of a pregnancy for example.  That’s not discrimination it’s discretion.

If I can’t make that determination, the determination of participation, I can no longer be who I am. I am being forced to be hypocritical. Someones right to be who they are can’t trump my right to be who I am.

Doesn’t this same concept apply to a baker, a florist, a jeweler or a catering hall owner? If not, why not?

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