I've been reading that Jeb Bush's idea on same-sex marriage is that everybody needs to respect everybody's views including those who would use "religious freedom" to deny the LGBT community any equality under the law.
That's fine. I doubt that many of us are surprised he said that.
But if there had been a reporter present, maybe someone would have asked him if he means the refusal not only of marriage equality, but of every law protecting gays from being fired or evicted at the whim of the person in power.
How would you construct a law protecting the LGBT community that's acceptable to people who claim their religious belief trumps any such law?
I submit that it can't be done -- anyone with ideas, feel free to speak up.
In fact, I submit that this is the ONLY reason for the sudden demon-spawn of the U.S. Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby decision last year.
Have you ever heard of an LGBT person who seriously cared what his landlord's religion was? "Religious freedom" here is a non-issue -- the issue is making sure no LGBT U.S. citizen goes into court thinking they might be treated equally.
We already had a couple of centuries of that.
If these self-righteous, pseudo-Christian chupacabras force people back into second-class citizenship, I expect them to get what they deserve.
Eternally!