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We can refuse public accomodation based on a practice, an event or activity. That has NOTHING to do with the individual's personal identity which is the basis for discrimination law. A gay man walks into a pet store and tells the owner that he wants to buy some cute dogs to BBQ and eat them. The owner refuses to sell. The owner is not discriminating because the man is gay. He is discriminating against the practice.
Get the difference??
You're driven by your religious beliefs, Jeff, which, you've been told over and over again, are misguided. You harp on about 'sin', that homosexuality is 'a sin' and that Christians are to oppose 'sin' even when it comes to servicing the public as in a business refusing to accommodate a gay marriage. If the perceived 'sin' of another was the real reason behind refusing service to someone then that business would be refusing service to everyone since 'sinlessness' doesn't exist.
The above 'example' of one's differentiating between homosexuality per se and the 'practice' associated with homosexuality is silly.
Yeah, you know why? Because gays did not have the right to marry who they wanted, unlike heterosexuals. Duh.
Heterosexuals did not have the right to marry whom they wanted. They could only marry someone who agreed, and only someone of the opposite sex, and only if neither of them was married to someone else.
Same with homosexuals. They could marry anyone of the opposite sex who agreed to marry them, if they were both unmarried at the time.
The LGBTQ community have every right to be vocal about not being given the same rights as other citizens of the United States. Just as other minority groups have had to find for things, they are doing the same.
Don't give me this "minority" stuff.
The people who are not being given the same rights as other citizens are white people. We are now barely a majority of the USA's population, and we suffer ALL of the "legal" government-enforced discrimination in this country.
So, by that measure, would you support a business owner whose sincerely-held religious beliefs compelled them to discriminate against the disabled, or interracial couples?
Why not add no religious discrimination against bigamist and pedophiles if we're just going to make up hypotheticals.
It's well established for like 2,000 years that homosexuality violates Christian beliefs.
Heterosexuals did not have the right to marry whom they wanted. They could only marry someone who agreed, and only someone of the opposite sex, and only if neither of them was married to someone else.
Same with homosexuals. They could marry anyone of the opposite sex who agreed to marry them, if they were both unmarried at the time.
I think it's more of Americans being fed up with the nonstop barrage of in your face petty drama and intolerance shown by the LGBTQ community than being uncomfortable with their lifestyles.
It starts from the top down. Trump (just as Reagan before him) has made it fashionable for the majority to feel superior to others that they may know little about. I’d like to see the poll details, but I would suspect that southerners and older ppl would be the most indifferent.
Last edited by Hopeful for Life; 01-28-2018 at 08:21 PM..
By a rogue and narrow SCOTUS decision or legislating. Not a fair loss.
Its always a wrong, rogue, and unfair decision when its one your side lost.
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