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Originally Posted by SebC
This is true, but it's also allowing (mostly) religion to trump anti-discrimination. It's is also resisting progressive change. My definition of liberty does not include liberty to discriminate.
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Should the Catholic Church be forced by the government to marry a homosexual couple? An atheist couple? A Hindu couple? Should they be forced to rent their property for the purposes of conducting satanic rituals?
That question settles down to whether religious institutions should be able to have a modicum of control over their own sphere of influence (their property, congregations, rites, personal beliefs and whatnot).
The Libertarian view would be that those institutions should be able to do whatever they like within their sphere (churches, church-owned properties etc) and other groups - Gays, Atheists, Hindi, Wiccans can do whatever they like with their own personal spheres and that all groups would have to act in a totally equitable and non-discriminatory fashion in the public sphere (public rentals, the workplace, government, malls, parks and all that stuff).