Raggedman wrote:
Runningart2004 wrote:
No. I'm ultimately saying both sides are hypocrites. Which is true.
Let religious folk practice however they want as per their constitutional freedom.
I also say let people who have gone through hormone replacement therapy identify by whatever sex they choose, however there needs to be medical guidelines to do so. This is similar to what the military was pushing at one point and made sense as it's a long drawn out process that includes a complete hormone replacement program.
I have no issue with Billy wanting to be Billy Jean or compete in sports as Billy Jean....but there needs to be guidelines as far as hormone replacement therapy and T:E ratios in order to compete as the opposite of your biological sex.
Alan
I’m sorry, but I don’t see many Democrats trying to restrict people’s religious freedoms. Limiting occupancy in churches at the same time that occupancy is being limited in just about every other context during a public health crisis isn’t an imposition on their right or ability to practice their faith.
So you’re setting up a false dichotomy to argue against and then come back to white knight for trans people to show how un-hypocritical you are when your original argument was hypocritical to start with.
As I understand it, the decisive issue is that NY had explicit rules for church gatherings. Had they, for instance, prohibited gatherings of more than 10 people outside of a household across the board, a religious discrimination legal argument would be hard to make.
The flip side is the state's intent was to provide clear guidance on various activities relating to public health which is a good thing. I don't believe there was any clear religious discrimination intent and the Supreme Court decision comes at a cost to public health. The problem is that religious liberty is an explicitly protected constitutional right and public health concerns aren't.