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Originally Posted by alltherage
I am just saying that if it is truly against your religion to provide any kind of facilitation to something, then your freedom of religion is bein infringed upon.
I guess the real point I am getting at, is that it just seems like when party X's rights and freedoms are protected, it always seems to infringe on party Y's.
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I agree with you completely that there are trade-offs. But my opinion is that in the heirarchy of rights, religious rights should come last.
Your freedom of religion should not supercede the rights of gay people to marry (and get the associated tax benefits), the right to healthcare (hello, Jehovah's witnesses, especially children), the right to free speech (vs. blasphemy - although the right to free speech and the right to religion would be superceded by the right to security and anti-discrimination in regard to hate speech), the right to a fair trial (Sharia law should never supercede Candian law!) or the responsibility to pay your share of the taxes that enable people to exercise the rights your freedom of religion would infringe upon.
Would you argue that religious rights should have supremacy? Because as you've pointed out, they can't really be equal. Note that this is not to say that you wouldn't have the right to religious freedom, just that you can only practice your religion where doing so does not infringe upon other, more important rights.