Until he winds up in Canada, getting claws and admantium plating for his bones installed.
“I am the way and the light, bub.”
I wore a necklass for a little while. Gave it up. Kept getting jammed up my butt every time I sat down.
Yeah! I mean…
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C’mon! :eek: I was born this way, really! They’re called ALLERGIES!
–G!
I wouldn’t want to force a Christian baker to make a cake for a homosexual wedding ceremony any more than I would want to force a black photographer to shoot a KKK wedding or an Indian catering company to provide food at a meeting for the beef cattle industry. It’s simply a matter of an individual having the freedom to not knowingly participate in the celebration of something one profoundly disagrees with. The specifics of this situation though are interesting and I’m not sure how I feel about it. Trying to think through the implications of this sticker program they have going.
One small step for gays, and eventually, one giant leap for mankind when they force businesses to remove those “no shirt, no service” signs! My dream of going naked to McDonalds creeps ever closer!
As I read your post, I sneezed. On a Tuesday.
Ah, but you see, one of these things is not like the other: The black photographer and the Indian catering company are right.
Fine. The racism-friendly photographers and non-Hindu caterers can put up signs saying they will proudly serve bigots and beef-eaters, respectively, and can do so, and those with compunctions can refuse to do so. Who’s being forced to do anything?
I mean, yes, people are (rightly) being sued for refusing service, but that’s got nothing to do with “the implications of this sticker program”. Completely the other way around.
It’s one thing to refuse to shoot my wedding because it’s my gay wedding. It’s another to refuse to serve me a hamburger just because I’m gay. One is related to a lifestyle and life decisions. The other is not.
Eating a hamburger is a lifestyle choice? 
How about making a cake? How is that different from making a hamburger?
What? No. The opposite.
I presume the cake is for the wedding and the hamburger is not. If you just want a birthday cake, that’s different. If you want hamburgers catered to your wedding, that’s different, too. I’d serve a KKK member at McDonalds. I wouldn’t photograph his rally. It’s a matter of scale.
Culture wars should be fought with the wallet and the podium, not the lawyer and the gavel.
Don’t be too sure of your presumptions.
I’m just curious as to when the cake became part of the ceremony. I’ve always seen it as part of the party afterwards.
Touché! And this has NOTHING to do with religion! After all, there must be countless bakeries (like other small businesses) that display a sign reading “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.”
I love how suddenly, people deciding of their own volition that they’ll serve homosexuals, and saying so, is oppressing Christians. Dear Buddy Smith: I do not have the right to swing my fist at your face just because your face is in a location that would be very convenient for my fist. If you disagree with me on that point… Well, all of a sudden, there’s exactly one place my first wants to be, and that is exactly where your face is. Maybe some days it’ll take a vacation to where your testicles are. :mad:
Actually, this is like someone coming up to you, grabbing your arm and trying to force you to punch someone else while screaming that you are oppressing them by not punching the other guy.
It’s bigoted and demented, a two-for-one bonus.
Many groups already publish directories of businesses that cater to them. Why not use those?
Quick story: a friend owns a bed and breakfast inn and one time she got a call from a man who asked her specifically if she caters to gays and lesbians. Friend said she’s friendly to them but doesnt cater especially to them. At that the caller asked the name again and said he was calling the wrong business. Apparently he was looking for another nearby bad and breakfast that did just cater to gays and lesbians.
Would some Christian please explain this statement to me?
Sure.
He is deluded.
You are welcome.
The view they have is that the wording describes the ‘religious freedom’ law as discrimination and that by putting it in those terms, the attempt is to shame businesses that follow their conscience and religion to refuse gay people service.
They are also people that said Kmart should be ‘neutral in the culture war’ and fire Ellen as their spokesperson. Because you see, neutral is either pretending gay people don’t exist or actively working against them. (see their support for Dan Cathy )