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There is also a history way of using religion as a pretext to discriminate against people. I know plenty of Muslims who don’t harbor any negative views of homo
by jakelazaroff 5y ago
There is also a history way of using religion as a pretext to discriminate against people. I know plenty of Muslims who don’t harbor any negative views of homosexuality, for instance; it’s certainly not a required tenet. And if we’re discussing this in moral rather than legal terms, I actually do think the customer’s viewpoint is the only one that matters.
- rayiner 5y agoIt’s not for the government to decide what’s a “requires tenet” of a religion. Moreover, Islam isn’t Protestant Christianity. You don’t read the book and make up your own mind about what it means. Islam has baked into it a principle that lay people defer to religious scholars on major doctrinal questions. American Muslims (I’m an immigrant from a Muslim country) have a very nuanced view on same-sex marriage. Most support it’s legality because they view white Americans as belonging to a distinct culture that isn’t subject to Islamic law. But in their own community it’s completely unacceptable: https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/us/lgbt-muslims-pride-progress/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/28/us/lgbt-muslims-pride-progres.... Thus there is a big difference for most Muslims between equal rights, non-discrimination protections, etc., and anything that would require their personal involvement.