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How is me marrying my fiancee doing anything to control your behavior or speech?
You can say whatever you want, you can marry who you want.
In what way are you being controlled by me having the same rights as you?
When your marriage requires owners of bakeries, flower shops or photographers the denial of their first amendment rights to freely practice their religion or face exorbitant fines or loss of livelihood by force of the State, you are controlling behavior and speech of others.
When your marriage requires the majority of society to embrace the redefinition of a theological and foundational societal norm or be called out as bigoted and homophobic, you are trying to control the behavior and speech of others.
When your marriage requires judicial activism to overturn the will of the majority of the citizens, that is controlling behavior and speech.
Wrong. Religion is included in anti-discrimination laws including the one that 'Kansas just removed sexual orientation from.
So, I can be fired because I am homosexual, but you can't be fired because of your religion. Why should religion have special protections?
Again, because religious freedom is guaranteed in the US Constitution. Point out where your right to bump uglies with the same sex is a Constitutionally guaranteed right?
What to do when say these supposed love-based marriages hinders the employer from operating an efficient and profitable business, and then these supposed loved-based marriages fail and end in divorce?
If only we had some sort of previous experience with the concept of "marriage".
With the stroke of a pen, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback erased protections offered to LGBT state employees facing discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity.
What is more important than LGBT's 'rights', are American children who are brainwashed every school day. Because these children are the real victims! Where are our children's rights?
I fail to see why anyone with a sane mind would want to live in that a*s backwards state.
Who tells their boss what their sexual orientation is? Are employers asking employees what their sexual orientation is? How can you protect or discriminate against someone unless they are being obnoxiously promiscuous about their sexual orientation, in which case maybe they should be fired (homo- or heterosexual).
You mean like having a photo of their significant other on their desk like EVERY SINGLE OTHER STRAIGHT PERSON HAS ON THEIR DESK? Yeah.
but people want to be considered normal and then also want all this special treatment. It boggles my mind. I have never been to Kansas so I don't know how people are treated but here in California gays aren't being harassed endlessly
What "special treatment" is it to ask that at work, you be judged on your WORK, not your relationships/orientation? It doesn't mean you can't fire a gay person, only that you can't fire a gay person BECAUSE they are gay. Just like you can't fire a black person BECAUSE they are Black, but you can still fire them, ditto with religion, disabled, etc.
Orientation was written into the specific list of people you can't (in some places) discriminate against, specifically because it was happening. You don't hear of anybody firing someone for, say, having red hair, thus there is no need for "hair color protection". However, some people still don't want a "damned *****" working for them even if said person is their top employee.
When your marriage requires owners of bakeries, flower shops or photographers the denial of their first amendment rights to freely practice their religion or face exorbitant fines or loss of livelihood by force of the State, you are controlling behavior and speech of others.
When your marriage requires the majority of society to embrace the redefinition of a theological and foundational societal norm or be called out as bigoted and homophobic, you are trying to control the behavior and speech of others.
When your marriage requires judicial activism to overturn the will of the majority of the citizens, that is controlling behavior and speech.
Sorry you don't like some states anti-discrimination laws, but they exist, and all businesses have to follow the same laws.
No one cares if you "embrace" anything. You can love me, hate me, call me a big doo doo head, I don't care, but as an American citizen I am entitled to the same constitutional rights you enjoy including the right to equal protection of the laws.
The "will of the people" doesn't matter when it comes to constitutional protections. We are not a direct democracy, you do not get to vote on other peoples rights.
Again, because religious freedom is guaranteed in the US Constitution. Point out where your right to bump uglies with the same sex is a Constitutionally guaranteed right?
The constitution has to do with government laws and treatment, not how businesses operate.
If a business says I won't hire Christians then they would be breaking anti-discrimination laws that protect religion.
Funny how you guys always think about who I'm "bumping uglies" with when it is not even a topic of this discussion. And you people say all we think about is sex.
When your marriage requires the majority of society to embrace the redefinition of a theological and foundational societal norm or be called out as bigoted and homophobic, you are trying to control the behavior and speech of others.
Don't act as a bigot, don't get called a bigot.
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