"So when conflicts occur between the desire of Christians to live their faith under the protection of the First Amendment and the desire of homosexuals to suppress all disapproval of their perverted lifestyle under the SORs, one legal standard or the other must prevail and the other must fail. As a society we have to choose whether the sexual orientation regulations or the First Amendment will be the law of our land.
Granted, homosexuals may feel discriminated against when I quote the Bible that homosexuality is an abomination to God. They want to shut me up. One of us is going to lose that contest. At stake is nothing less then the power of the First Amendment to protect my freedom of religious speech.
Let us remember that freedom of religion is the very first principle of the Bill of Rights, just as it was the very first principle of the Magna Charta, the foundation stone of all civil rights law going all the way back to the year 1215. Freedom of speech is the second principle of the Bill of Rights. So my right to call homosexuality depraved is deeply rooted in the first two principles of our most fundamental civil rights law.
SORs on the other hand are a late 20th century invention of the political left to try to shoehorn homosexuality into our civil rights law. They have no precedent in human rights jurisprudence but were created from thin air. They literally contradict true civil rights. How can it be that these legally frivolous, highly controversial regulations are allowed to trump the First Amendment?
In years past, liberals used to say “I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Today, that’s been changed to “Speak against ‘gay’ dogma and I will make you regret it.” And SORs are the weapon that have given them the power to actually do it."