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So you are saying a gay web designer should not be able to refuse a job from a fundamentalist Christian wanting a fundamentalist Christian website (the content

• threatofrain 5y ago
  That's already the law, and in a way which is permanent enough not to imagine other scenarios of what "ought" be.
  • akvadrako 5y ago
    Deciding this question is what the court case is about. So it's debateable if it's already the law.
    • threatofrain 5y ago
      The question before the court is the opposite one you are thinking of. Whether people can discriminate against Christians is not under debate.
      • shadowgovt 5y ago
        The protection of rights as per sexual orientation and the protection of rights as per religious affiliation are siblings in the Civil Rights Act; they're two of the (equal) protected classes. Any conclusions drawn by the Court in this case will be readily extrapolable to religious affiliation. Web designers don't have to do a "We're gay and we love it" site because it offends their religious beliefs? Then other web designers don't have to do a "This is our Catholic church" site because Catholicism offends their Protestant beliefs. (IANAL, but this would, perhaps, be a good argument for the defendants to bring).