Gays "contradict religious belief"

The far right religious wing nuts are crapping on in the US too. I find it similar to what's going on here. There is the constant angst from the religious that because they have religious beliefs, then that allows them to discriminate against people who don't believe as they do, or who live lives contrary to the churches religious beliefs. In short, religion is used as a justification for discrimination.

Apparently someone's religious beliefs are paramount and unquestionable. Nobody should dare to challenge someone's religion sort of thing. They often use words like "deeply held beliefs" or some such thing, giving the notion that if the discrimination resulting from said deep beliefs is challenged, then you are I guess challenging the very depths and core of their religious nature.

The argument is absurd. I could say just the reverse, that my deeply held religious belief in the Flying Spaghetti Monster means that their discriminatory actions are an affront to my deeply held beliefs. Therefore I am right, and all must listen to me.

The truth of the matter is that science outside of religion sheds far more reason and light on our communities than religion does. The unbiased discovery of scientific facts has led to the conclusion that the LGBT are a minority yes, but they are also a natural reflection of nature. I'd put those discoveries above the Flying Spaghetti Monster/imaginary sky man, any day. 

“Do we want to support policies that discriminate against an employer’s religious beliefs and require employers to hire individuals who contradict their very most deeply held religious beliefs?” Coats asked. “This bill also would allow employers to be held liable to workplace environment complaints opening the door to the silencing of employees who express their deeply held beliefs. This possibility runs counter to everything America stands for in the realm of free speech.” 

Coats, who is 70 and had served as the United States Ambassador to Germany under President George W. Bush, is under the impression that LGBT people should be fired — or not hired — merely for being born LGBT, and that people who choose a particular religion and choose to belief in a certain way should be “protected.” Coats, the author of Mending Fences, apparently believes that both companies and employees should have the “right” to call LGBT people “sinners,” for example, and to tell them — as a condition of their continued employment — that they will go to hell, just for being born a certain way. And Coats believes that this is “everything America stands for in the realm of free speech.” more