I fear how this can be played out when people with like moral thinking all decide they won't bake cakes for LGBT weddings, or when they apply social pressure to assure that no one does.  I grew up in a segregated Bible Belt Southern U.S. state.  Believe me, the beliefs regarding segregation by race were widely defended as being Biblical.  I think it is important we not forget how individual "religious beliefs" can become group and social actions, to the detriment of some minority or the other.  

I also agree with Monica's point that this "right" to discriminate on a moral belief is narrowly pointed directly at LGBT people.   

We both fear slippery slopes.  You fear chains around what we are calling "religious freedom."  I fear "religious freedom" run amok - anything can be claimed as a religious belief.  And, I fear a religious belief becoming a group and social action directed against a particular minority.  "Whites only" drinking fountains?  "No gay wedding" cake bakers?

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