Opponents of Indiana’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act gather for a protest on the lawn of the Indiana State Capitol on March 28. (Doug McSchooler, The Associated Press)
Re: “Indiana Law: Religious freedom or discrimination?,” April 12 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Peter Gross suggested that a baker refusing to provide a cake for an interracial marriage, a florist refusing to deliver flowers to a Muslim wedding and a merchant refusing to deliver goods to a gay wedding are comparable. I don’t believe they are. The underlying issue involved here is can a merchant, who has a sincere religious belief that marriage is only between a man and a woman, refuse to participate in a gay wedding by providing goods or services? The discrimination against interracial marriage did not involve a person’s belief about the definition of marriage itself. The objection was based solely on the participantap color of their skin. The refusal to provide flowers to a Muslim wedding between a man and woman would also have nothing to do with a person’s sincere belief that the definition of marriage is, and always has been, between a man and a woman.
Art Biddle,Arvada
This letter was published in the April 19 edition.
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