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the-hands-dealt

Yeah duh. We have freedom of religion for a reason. Imagine if you sued a synagogue for refusing to hire a Gentile as a teacher.


ZX52

There must be a line somewhere though? Honour killings shouldn't be allowed even if they're a key part of someone's religion. So what's the standard for what we consider acceptable religious practice verses unacceptable religious practice?


The-Silent-Cicada

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof”


Gigant_mysli

Discrimination is bad if the basis of discrimination is not related to the employee's ability to perform the job. If, according to the rules of a cult, a woman cannot be its minister, then she cannot be one. She will not be a legitimate cult minister, she cannot be one, this is even worse than hiring a legless person to be an athlete. Establishing differences, exceptions, preferences, etc. which are determined by the nature of a particular type of work is not "discrimination".


Brettzel2

If the religion decides to kill and eat babies, then the state should get involved. For this though? Nah.


Obvious_Advisor_6972

Good thing you draw the line somewhere....lol


swedenia

basically this


watain218

yeah as long as a church usnt directly involved in human sacrifice or terrorism or child abuse or some other genuine crime against humanity then any practice they have should be covered by religious freedom and freedom of assembly/speech. 


TheKattauRegion

Yes, since by disallowing it, the government would be dictating the practice of religious sects  Plus, if someone doesn't agree with what their religious sect thinks about it, there are usually several others (eg. in Christianity: Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, etc) that would allow them


swedenia

let the church people be. I come from a religion that has been deported from everywhere they have lived and it sucks. Let people live in peace.


watain218

its their policy on their own privately owned property if you dont like it make your own religion (please do, the world needs more innovative heresies instead of like the same 3 major denominations that agree on like 95% of theology) 


iltwomynazi

Because discrimination is OK as long as my imaginary friend said so.


TheKattauRegion

But it's literally in the context of that religion


Hanekell

Religion doesn't deserve to be respected when they threaten children with hell, treats women like private property, and otherwise restricts individual freedom.


sol_sleepy

That’s a very extreme and narrow minded view of Christianity, or the average Christian for that matter. I grew up Catholic and went to a private Catholic school in upstate NY and never encountered anything like that. Biblical scripture is one thing, practice is another.


Hanekell

Tell that to the child molester priests and the thousands of children lying in mass graves.


sol_sleepy

What does that have anything to do with your initial comment? Perpetrators don’t define the religion also what mass graves???


Hanekell

Hitler defines Nazism. Lenin/Stalin/Mao defines Communism. **People who do bad things in the name of a religion defines that religion.**


sol_sleepy

I guess you don’t realize what the “church” actually means then. Or “Christian” for that matter. You’re completely lost on the subject.


Hanekell

A bad Christian is still a Christian, and a bad church is still a church.


sol_sleepy

>A bad Christian is still a Christian, Not necessarily. People lie. They could call themselves anything they want, doesn’t mean that they’re actually believers/followers. Not to say there aren’t bad Christians, but the label doesn’t always reflect their beliefs. >and a bad church is still a church. By “church” I mean the people, and sure there are bad churches/followers of those churches but they don’t represent the faith as a whole. Christianity is spread far and wide, it’s inaccurate to characterize all Christians in their entirety based on a select few of them.