Since I have already established myself as politically incorrect, there's no point in being coy.
In the hierarchy of fundamental rights, freedom of conscience is second only to the right to life itself. Anyone who doesn't appreciate this is brain-dead.
You cannot legislate acceptance. You can force conformity; you cannot force human hearts.
Does anyone remember Yugoslavia? The generations of enmity between the Serbs and the Croats wasn't permitted expression under Tito. He simply did not allow it. Then he went away. What happened? What happened was one of the most bestial and savage examples of civil war in the entire 20th century. When people aren't permitted to express their beliefs and practice them, those beliefs and practices don't simply dissipate and vanish; no, they fester and grow, sometimes in weird ways, waiting for the opportunity to express themselves. And when they finally do, it isn't pretty. No, precious, not pretty at all.
You have to let people be ->-bleeped-<-s, if that's what they want to be. It's not as if there aren't doctors, lawyers, bakeries and florists who don't give a damn and aren't happy to have our business. Let those who have religious scruples have their way; they will end up ostracizing themselves. Forcing them to violate their beliefs will end by bringing more trouble than we have now, letting them have their way.
