Growing Intolerance Of The Left

The cultural war between the conservative status quo and the liberal politically correct is waging here even more widely now. It's broadened to a PC versus religious belief contest. Many states are being challenged by he more liberal, permissive states for passing what they call "discriminatory laws", ones which say that a person may refuse to do business with another person who's lifestyle is contrary to their religious belief. This involves only private business or persons making private transactions, because the law in the United States makes all public businesses serve everyone equally, regardless of their sexual or other lifestyle belief and practice. In a sense, the old idea being challenged is that private businesses can refuse to serve whomever they wish.

Currently a person who has a business selling a product still has the right, in most but not all states, to refuse to sell to a gay person, an atheist etc., if that customer's behavior violates the sellers religious belief. "I am not making your wedding cake because I do not approve of gay marriages like yours" would be an example.  The courts are still defining this problem. But as of now state governments that are liberal in philosophy have decided to become the moral arbiter.

Here in Oregon, the state government has just forbidden any state employees from traveling to the state of Mississippi on state business, because the state of Mississippi has passed a law making transgender person use the rest room of their biological gender, not of their own choice. Hmmmm I am sure there are many Oregon laws that the state of Mississippi disagrees with as well.( legalized marijuana in Oregon, for example).  If they were to refuse to do business with Oregon in the same intolerant manner Oregon exercises toward Mississippi, commerce would be damaged severely. Extrapolate that philosophy and practice to all 50 states and the United States might not survive as a nation.

In this country each state is required, via the U.S. Constitution, to honor the legal laws of every other state. Thus, a person married in Mississippi who moves to Oregon is legally married in Oregon too. Oregon can not invalidate that marriage simply because it was performed in another state.  But now the liberal states are demanding that other states (conservative ones) who do not share their liberal beliefs change their laws to suit the liberal bent (make them PC too). They say, as Oregon and many other states have done, "If you don't make your law conform to our belief we will not engage in any relationship with you." Kinda intolerant, I think.

In essence, it means that the liberal state is invalidating the religious belief of residents of the other states simply because the liberal state thinks that it knows what is "right" and the other conservative state does not.  The arrogance of it all offends me. ("Your religious belief is secondary to my PC belief"). These laws passed by the non PC states do not limit any constitutionally protected rights or actions of any citizen of any state under federal or state laws. The laws the PC crowd hate so much do not attempt to challenge federal laws. They are legal in the state and in the nation. So why must the PC crowd try to force it's beliefs on other states?

Instead, the laws that the PC states do not like are designed in targeted ways to prevent government interference in the lives and religious practices of the people in the state. In other words, to allow the residents to express their religious belief freely. What's wrong with that?