At the same time, of course, in public office you cannot impose your own religious beliefs on others.
I don't need to impose my beliefs on others, and they fish whether I give them anything or not.
"I didn't believe it was right for me to impose my personal religious beliefs on others," he said.
"There comes a point where no board can impose its own beliefs over the opposition of the people who elected it."
It's easy to say that Birmingham was wrong, but do we want our corporations to impose their beliefs?
But if we start taking away somebody else's rights, imposing our beliefs, then what happens next time?
This also means not imposing one's beliefs and therapeutic values on clients, lives.
But it is just as serious when human rights are denied because people want to impose their religious beliefs on other people.
Christian conservatives want to use the government to impose their religious beliefs on the entire country.
"But why should an individual suppose they have a right to impose their beliefs on another group?"