...even though no reference to “homosexual,” or any of the rest of the Alphabet Soup Perversity Brigade is mentioned in the [MS] legislation, homosexual activists are still waging war against the new law. Now, they have created window stickers for businesses that state, “We don’t discriminate. If you’re buying, we’re selling.” The sticker has a rainbow-colored line running through its center.
As they do in every aspect of their anti-Christian, freedom-robbing agenda, they lie about the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, insisting it will open the door to a flood of anti-homosexual “discrimination,” with Christian businesses owners refusing to do business with people simply because they’re sodomites. That’s not happening, but these people don’t let truth or reason even come close to getting in their way, because if there were even one case of a “Christian” business owner telling a homosexual, “We don’t serve your limp-wristed kind in here,” it would be blaring headline news from coast to coast, world without end.
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...because if there were even one case of a “Christian” business owner telling a homosexual, “We don’t serve your limp-wristed kind in here,” it would be blaring headline news from coast to coast, world without end.
I'd like you to try a thought experiment, if you don't mind.
Let's say that it were perfectly legal to do exactly what you want to do to the gays, to Christians. To refuse them service simple because they are Christian. How would you feel about that?
Of course, there is a difference between being gay and being Christian. People really do choose to be Christian.
I still cannot fathom how these people's twisted minds work.
How the hell do they translate "We don't discriminate" to be a signal of hatred? If the only way they can show love is through exclusion, then I don't want anything to do with these kinds of people.
See, this is where Gina fucks up: those stickers were not produced by a gay group, but rather by business owners who wanted to profit from the stupidity of others. They're saying "we don't care who you sleep with, we want your money!" It's capitalism, Gina. What are you, some sort of commie?
Yes, those horrible, freedom-robbing people, freely letting whoever wants to buy their products buy those products.
Meeting customer demands is the essence of capitalism. By encouraging discrimination, you are trying to strangle the free market. What have you got against capitalism you dirty hippie? Are you suggesting that capitalism is unchristian?!?
Work your way out of THAT one Gina!
because if there were even one case of a “Christian” business owner telling a homosexual, “We don’t serve your limp-wristed kind in here,” it would be blaring headline news from coast to coast, world without end.
And do you know why that is? Because it's wrong . It's absolutely no different from a business owner telling a black customer "we don't serve niggers in here." It's simply nothing more than bigotry disguised as religious freedom. It's too bad that there's a rather large segment of our society which can't understand that.
And this is why I don't buy the libertarian idea of "business owners should be allowed to discriminate because the market forces will make them go out of business." Well, not when you have a bunch of bigots telling businesses that they should be discriminating against the same people the bigots hate. It's obvious that their only purpose is to disenfranchise a certain segment of society, and if you get enough of them in power then it will happen.
@Doubting Thomas:
"It's absolutely no different from a business owner telling a black customer "we don't serve niggers in here." It's simply nothing more than bigotry disguised as religious freedom"
There are still white supremecist sects in America who claim the religious freedom to do exactly that.
Why do you hate capitalism?
Where's the anti-Christian, freedom-robbing in "If you're buying, we're selling"?
Why do you need a religious freedom restoration act? You already have freedom of religion in your Constitution.
"Christian" (the citation marks are used because they obviously forgot to Love Their Neighbor) business owners HAVE refused to do business with homosexuals, and it WAS head-line news. But, coast to coast isn't enough; the news traveled outside the US as well. (Wasn't one of the store owners happy to cater to a dog wedding a couple of minutes after refusing to cater to a gay wedding?)
Do you have a point, dearie, or was your sole purpose of this rant to be able to use "We don’t serve your limp-wristed kind in here" without it seeming to come from you?
People have to decide whether they're in business to make money and support their families or use it as a platform for their bigoted political opinions. Actually, I'd just as soon these morons were allowed to discriminate. They'd soon be out of business, because it's not just gays themselves who find this sort of thing offensive.
Look what happened to anti-gay Anita Bryant - and this was in the 70's: (from Wiki)
"Her contract with the Florida Citrus Commission was allowed to lapse in 1979 because of the controversy and the negative publicity generated by her political campaigns and the resulting boycott of Florida orange juice. Her marriage to Bob Green also failed at that time, and in 1980 she divorced him, citing emotional abuse and latent suicidal thoughts. ... Some fundamentalist audiences and venues shunned her after her divorce. As she was no longer invited to appear at their events, she lost another major source of income ... She married her second husband, Charlie Hobson Dry, in 1990. The couple tried to reestablish her music career in a series of small venues, including Branson, Missouri, and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, where they opened "Anita Bryant's Music Mansion." The establishment combined Bryant's performances of her successful songs from early in her career with a "lengthy segment in which she preached her Christian beliefs." The venture was not successful and the Music Mansion, which had missed meeting payrolls at times, filed for bankruptcy in 2001 with Bryant and Dry leaving behind a series of unpaid employees and creditors. ... Bryant also spent part of the 1990s in the country music mecca of Branson, Missouri, where the state and federal governments filed liens claiming more than $116,000 in unpaid taxes. Bryant and Dry had also filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Arkansas in 1997 after piling up bills from a failed Anita Bryant show in Eureka Springs, a tourist area in northwest Arkansas. Among the debts were more than $172,000 in unpaid state and federal taxes."
Christians complaining that they shouldn't be called on their bigotry. Shocker. Pity the bigots. Poor them.
It's not as if there are stickers that say "Christian assholes can shove it." I like how they have to make everything about them. Ever persecuted by everything.
And, yes, there has very recently been Christ-nut business owners telling people they will not be served because they are gay. Hence the law to "protect religious freedom." And hence the stickers.
Why stop there? Why not flat out make it illegal to serve 'teh gayz'? That'll teach them for coming out of the closet!
That's the problem with this, it half asses its bigotry. Go big or go home.
...meanwhile, people vote with their wallets.
The Pink Dollar/Pound/Euro/(*Insert currency of your choice here *) is very powerful. Just ask Pepsico's shareholders.
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