Back in September the Utah attorney general, numerous state politicians and our esteemed congressional delegation signed on to an amicus curiae/friend of the court brief in support of the Colorado baker refusing to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
The gist of their support was that religious beliefs/liberty must be protected even if it results in a discriminatory act. Recently, Gordon Monson had an article in the Tribune sports section very much implying that religious bias is keeping BYU out of the Power 5 conferences (i.e. the big money).
So following your deeply held religious beliefs, even if it results in discrimination, is acceptable, but discriminating against you because of those same deeply held religious beliefs is unacceptable?
Did the whole “cognitive dissonance/contradictory beliefs held by the same individual” thing occur to anyone?
I guess the less wonky/elitist, or more Utah-friendly, language would be: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
Scott Fenwick, Millcreek
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