In Arizona last week, a law was passed for religious freedom: the right to deny service because of your religious stance on homosexuality. Well... okay. This can be argued to be constitutional. If you believe homosexuals to be criminals under the laws of the Bible, to be forced to serve them could be impinging on your rights.

But this idea doesn't hold up under other situations. For example, there are A LOT more instances in the Bible urging celibacy than condemnations of homosexuality. Can you deny service to sluts? Do you ask every person whether they're married and if not a virgin? Perhaps you can say that's inefficient, but I think the Bible is more stringent on that than homosexuals. Or let's talk about a law that was on the books, interracial marriages. For a long time throughout the 1800s people believed on a religious level that the races shouldn't be mixed because God made them separate for a reason. If that's your religious belief, should you be allowed to deny service if a Chinese man and a white woman come into your shop holding hands?

I thinking about this case more than I should. On a logical and moral level I know it's wrong for the reasons stated above, but then again when I look at this case I remember a line I read from a mother fighting against profanity on television: "No matter how much I try to shield my child, the world still pushes in." If I bring up the argument for homosexuals — that every person has the right to be whatever they want to be — I have to also argue that for conservative Christians. I think we all know what they want: celibacy until marriage, no abortions, no rights for homosexuals, and some extreme ones want women to return to the home. The argument is if you wanna stay in your fantasized version of the 1950s, that's fine. But then again, the world is leaving them behind and to pretend that it's not going to influence their every day life is nonsense.

I guess what I'm trying to say is this: Do conservative Christians have a right to be... well, conservative Christians? Let's say we allow gay marriage and homosexual sex, that's allowing gays to be whatever they want to be. And by allowing conservative Christians to hate gays as much as they want, does that allow them to be whatever they want to be as well? Does a bigot have a right to be a bigot? Or is it okay to force them to accept homosexuality?

Yeah, I'm thinking way too much into this.