We have the right to freedom of expression.
We do not have the right to have any job.
Are you even aware of the consequences of your position?
You obviously have no idea what my position is.
My position is that the status quo with respect to our free speech laws and anti-discrimination laws WERE ALREADY FINE before this SCOTUS ruling.
What you and Toni seem unable to grasp is that YOU are the radical ones.
All I have done throughout this entire thread is defend what was already in place before this ruling.
This ruling did not defend the status quo; it RADICALLY ALTERED IT.
The liberal ruling in this case would have kept the status quo in place.
I am not some radical anti-speech authoritarian. Those of you who are defending this change are the radicals.
The notion that my position is radical is ludicrous on its face because ALL I have done is defend the status quo that existed before this ruling.
You're requiring ideological conformity to a particular belief in order for a person to be allowed to have a fucking job.
No I'm not.
The United States' anti-discrimination laws, prior to this ruling, required that black people, Mexicans, and gays be treated like whites and heterosexuals. That's it.
Seriously, you're a pubic hair away from "Only atheist democrats are allowed to have jobs".
Fantastical nonsense.
Democrat is not a protected class. Both religion and no religion are a protected class which means that they are protected by the very anti-discrimination laws THAT I HAVE BEEN DEFENDING THROUGHOUT THIS THREAD.
And, if you haven't yet made that connection - predicating employment on the beliefs of the applicant
Wrong again.
Beliefs are irrelevant.
The equal protection laws that I support and that have been in place since the 1960s only require that in places of business and government agencies, minorities have to be treated like everyone else. Beliefs don't even enter into the equation.
is absolutely a violation of the 1st amendment in the US. The only exception is for employment positions in a literal church. Even companies that are owned by religious people, with religiously inspired business practices can't limit employment to only people that adhere to their religion. Hobby Lobby can't deny employment to a jewish or muslim or atheist on the basis of their religion.
The sheer level of illiberal authoritarian perspective involved in "Only people who believe what I want them to believe are allowed to have jobs that I think they should have" is astonishing.
If you think that my views are "illiberal authoritarian", then you also believe that the past 80 years of free speech and anti-discrimination laws are also illiberal and authoritarian.
Answer me this: if the anti-discrimination laws that have been in place since the 1960s are so oppressive to free speech, then how on earth is it that Americans have been getting away with expressing all manner of bigoted views for the last 80 years?