This idea that anyone can violate a law based on a religious belief that they hold is absurd. It is a recipe for chaos. Nobody knows how many religious beliefs exist among the world's religions. In Christianity alone, there is a huge variety of beliefs and Christian groups often contradict each other, so just declaring that one is a Christian does nothing to indicate what belief is at issue.
Public accommodation laws are intended to protect the public. Despite the idiotic contention that a rejected customer has some obligation to leave and remain silent, there is no such obligation, and there is no way a prospective customer would even know what a vendor's beliefs are in the first place. The consumer has to be protected, too.
"This idea that anyone can violate a law based on a religious belief that they hold is absurd."
One cannot imagine an educated person saying that, with knowledge of the deeply religious folks who founded this country.
They'd be deeply ashamed of you.
But....if you vote Democrat, you have no same.
What political party a person votes for is irrelevant.
The "deeply religious folks" you mentioned never agreed among themselves about anything. What went on between them involved whipping, banishment, and hanging.
Look up Roger Williams, Ann Hutchinson, both Puritans, and Mary Dyer and the three other Quakers who were hanged on Boston Common for the crime of being Quaker. A lot of fun was had by all. One of my high school teachers was descended from one of the judges who presided over the Salem Witch Trials, and one of my classmates was a descendent of one of the people they hanged. so there was some hilarity.
Washington attended Christ Episcopal in Alexandria, VA (a friend of mine and I onced prayed at every headstone in the churchyard, and we both admitted to having accidentally prayed over the water connection). Jefferson was a Deist. Of course, Protestants and Catholics celebrated religious freedom in the 19th Century by rioting against each other.
And this was all between Christians. I believe that Jewish people started arriving in the 18th Century, and that the first synogogue was built in Truro, RI, although there might have been one earlier in NYC. By the present day, more religous people from a plethora of religons have become Americans.
This all does not include the beliefs of Native People, who were here before the Europeans.
I'm not sure which, if any of them, would be ashamed of me.
1. "What political party a person votes for is irrelevant.
In the great panorama of stupid pronouncements......your have vaulted to the very top.
2. "The "deeply religious folks" you mentioned never agreed among themselves about anything."
Wait!!! Now you've garnered second place along with first!!!
The reason our revolution was so different from the violent, homicidal chaos of the French version was the dominant American culture was Anglo-Saxon and Christian. “52 of the 56 signers of the declaration and 50 to 52 of the 55 signers of the Constitution were orthodox Trinitarian Christians.”
http://www.davidlimbaugh.com/mt/archives/2010/02/new_column_libe_4.html
Believers in the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, or, as they would be known by Democrats today, “an extremist Fundementalist hate group.”
3. " Look up Roger Williams, Ann Hutchinson, both Puritans, and Mary Dyer and the three other Quakers who were hanged on Boston Common for the crime of being Quaker. A lot of fun was had by all. One of my high school teachers was descended from one of the judges who presided over the Salem Witch Trials, and one of my classmates was a descendent of one of the people they hanged. so there was some hilarity.
Washington attended Christ Episcopal in Alexandria, VA (a friend of mine and I onced prayed at every headstone in the churchyard, and we both admitted to having accidentally prayed over the water connection). Jefferson was a Deist. Of course, Protestants and Catholics celebrated religious freedom in the 19th Century by rioting against each other."
Today's Democrat Party is as far from the earlier versions as can be:
Here is Tom Perez, who served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee, calling you a liar.
"MARXISTS AND EXTREME RADICALS SEEK TO TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY
DNC chairman Tom Perez said Democratic
Socialists of America member Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “represents the future of our party.”
DSA chapter chairs have agreed that “communism is good.”
One DSA caucus
calls its members “revolutionary Marxists.”
A far-left group behind rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rife with
Marxists and other far-left radicals.
The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which includes Ocasio-Cortez, is
creeping its way into the mainstream of American politics.
What Perez didn’t mention is that the group behind “the future” of the Democratic Party is teeming with radicals openly dedicated to dismantling and overturning the economic and social foundations of the United States."
Marxists And Extreme Radicals Seek To Take Over The Democratic Party
The Democratic Socialists of America behind rising Democratic star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is rife with Marxists and other far-left radicals.
dailycaller.com
Among so many things you don't know, who Tom Perez is is one more glaring example.
Tom Perez
Former United States Secretary of Labor

Description
Description
Thomas Edward Perez is an American politician and attorney who
served as the Chair of the Democratic National Committee from February 2017 until January 2021. Perez was previously Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights and United States Secretary of Labor.
Wikipedia
Born: October 7, 1961 (age 59 years),
Buffalo, NY
Spouse:
Ann Marie Staudenmaier
Party:
Democratic Party
Education:
Harvard Kennedy School (1987),
Harvard Law School (1987),
Brown University
Upon reading your posts, one cannot but be amazed that you find your way out of the washroom each day.