You leave Chicago, Illinois out of this 
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Your right to freedom of religion and belief - Citizens Advice
Freedom of religion or belief - Liberty (libertyhumanrights.org.uk)
FoRB toolkit# (publishing.service.gov.uk)
A lot of bigotry coming up in this thread, the kind that if it wasnât against religion, but against race or lgbtqq+ community, would cause massive uproar from the people spouting the anti-religion/faith views. You canât have it both ways these are are ALL protected by law. Some of you need to get over the childish belittling of religious beliefs. If you donât believe fine, but if you keep deriding other people for it your committing the same kind of offence as all the other bigots. Who rightly get jumped on, on this board.
I kind of agree with Geordie couldnât give a shit about anybodyâs race, faith, or sexual orientation. Itâs simply their business and no-one elseâs.
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Nobody is saying youâre not free to do it. But donât be surprised when people judge you on your own choices. And that is why itâs different to Race or Homophobia, those things arenât choices.
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Exactly that. Religion is a choice, a personal belief system. Your race, your sexual orientation - theyâre hard-wired.
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Iâm intrigued. What laws are you talking about?
I think he has been watching too much Jordan Peterson.
Yes, I will continue to deride belief systems and individuals that encourage racism, misogyny and homophobia.
Yep, Mr Bigoty Mc Bigot, yes thatâs you in the mirrorâŚ
Get off your high horse and accept that what youâre saying is a gross generalisation and misunderstanding of the worldâs religions. You are are not the final arbiter and oracle on every subject.
Accept your bigotry get over yourself and reform those opinions.
Not all religions and religious people harbour those beliefs. Much of what you seem to believe about religion in general appears to be viewed through the filter of American evangelism via the internet.
I donât think you understand what the word means - and you clearly have no idea what you are talking about.
Bigotry
Eh, I might be seriously misunderstanding something here (and apologies if I am) but surely your sexual orientation is a choice, as in you can choose to change if it you want?
Obviously you cannot choose to change your race.
Absolutely clueless.
Is anyone who opposes homophobia, reduced womanâs rights and transphobia a bigot? 
You must have a reading problem, because at no point did I say âall religious people are racist or homophobicâ - but if individuals are homophobic for the reason of being in a certain religion (or any other group for that matter - like, say, the tory party?) - then it should be deplored. Sorry to clear up the obvious.
Also not really surprising you misunderstood, you get most things wrong.
Um, no. If youâre wired to be gay, youâre gay. Straight and youâre straight. Anywhere in between and youâre in between. Sexuality isnât either/or, itâs a progression between those two binary extremes. You donât choose it, and conversion therapy is an abomination (just by the way).
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Hmmm, I thought youâd declared yourself a âPastafarianâ believing in the âspaghetti Monsterâ? Because thatâs such a hilarious way of being derogatory about religion? Not actually about any morale point at all.
So donât say your only opposed to religion for those issues, itâs irrational dislike from you. Which ofcourse youâre so opposed to on other protected freedoms.
Better than be so up yourself that you think that you are right on all issues all of the time. Put a pin in that giant inflated ego. 
Wow.
You realise the Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster is just a simple (logical) thought experiment to show why the argument of âbut thereâs no evidence to show god doesnât existâ is complete nonsenseâŚ. Right?
Yowie wowie. Misunderstanding central.
Hmmm, so not a smart arsed piss take then, when you were using it? Totally believable. 
Tell you what Iâll go and mow my lawn now, and leave you to look down on us from your moral high ground/ ivory tower.
oops double post
Law has to come before religious beliefs.
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But some do choose.
I agree that for the vast majority of people that are at the gay/straight ends of that binary extremes spectrum, they will always remain at those ends but the fact people can and do move from either end to somewhere in between (and in some cases well into adult life) shows that it can be a choice, rather than it being âhard-wiredâ from birth?
How can it be a choice 
you donât just choose to have a certain partner, you have some sort of attraction 
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