Cab drivers in many jurisdictions are required to pick up the first person who flags them (not only because of racial issues, but also, for example, to prevent them from passing over someone who is going to a less lucrative place).
It’s hard to enforce, obviously (the driver can usually just say he didn’t see someone), but it’s not strictly unenforceable.
Surely you have a cite to a set of posts a while back in which a representative majority of liberals made the claim that gay marriage would have literally ZERO impact in any way on anyone ever?
Because (a) I’m sure you can’t, and (b) if you can, well, those people were wrong, they should have amended “this will have literally ZERO impact in any way on anyone… with some exceptions that are so obvious that we hardly think it worth mentioning, such as that you will have to have married gay neighbors, plus a few corner cases for people who actually direct work in wedding-oriented fields, such as county clerks and event planners”.
So far you’re even worse than Bricker at finding liberal hypocrisy, and that’s saying something.
I still can’t wrap my head around the idea of straight wedding planners. Male ones, at least. It’s like one of those hypotheticals conservatives throw around that have no place in a reality-based universe. What are they called? You know, the ones that are easy to toss because they are lightweight, as if they were filled with straw.
Thx, Miller! It helps my teenaged-daughter deal with her being gay here in Central Oklahoma,a huge bastion of hatred towards non-religious folk and LGBT’s. Made her smile seeing such a ‘policy’ from a church despite us being agnostic. Fight that ignorance, 'eh?!
http://www.conservativereason.org/are-conservatives-anti-science
The article basically tries to make two points. One, that scientists represent only 5% of the population (I’m not sure if that number is correct, but they are a minority) and that politicians need to represent the majority, not some small minority. Their example of 40% bible believers versus 5% scientists and engineers fails badly. If 40% are bible believers then 60% aren’t, so by the article’s own reasoning the 60% are the ones that they should be representing. Either the author is being disingenuous, he didn’t bother to do the math, or he is unable to do the math correctly. It’s hard to say.
The second point it tries to make is that common sense should win out over science. I don’t think I have to explain the problems with this on the SDMB. I think nearly everyone on here, regardless of political persuasion, will see the problems with that contention.
Along those same lines, today’s Cedar Rapids Gazette had an article about the Iowa state Board of Education’s process for developing new standards for science education. Apparently (what a shock), some (Republican) legislators and some members of the state board have concerns with the inclusion of evolution and climate change in these proposed standards.
One official said that not only are they considering the input of educators and scientists in putting together these standards, but they are also taking input and comments from the general public.
Umm, does science really go by popular opinion? Does it advance the intelligence and knowledge of our state’s students if their science curriculum is adjusted based on what Joe Churchgoer down the block thinks is “true,” and damn those atheist librul lefty scientists and all they stand for?
It is indeed a sad time when leaders responsible for determining what’s being taught in our schools have problems with evolution, for crying out loud, because it doesn’t agree with faith. You don’t teach faith in science class, dimwit. Science is where you posit a theory and then test it. If the results don’t go along with your theory, there’s something wrong with your theory, but the key is YOU TEST IT.
Teaching faith, that’s what church is for.
Adaher, gleeful odious bigot that he is, is either being extraordinarily stupid or deliberately disingenuous in his cites on public accommodation by selecting cites that are specific to the Americans with Disabilites Act (ADA) . Of course, if you perform all your work at the client’s premises its not your responsibility to make their premises ADA compliable. So, troll boy, yes, if some guy in a wheelchair asks you to come to his house to fix his computer that does not obligate you to install a wheelchair ramp
You will see the definition includes service establishments, which would include wedding planners. The definition also includes rental establishments and I mention this because many rental places do not have a physical storefront - orders are taken online or over the phone and delivered.
You could probably get away with running your wedding planning business as a private club - getting all business strictly through word of mouth referrals- but that would mean no advertising to the public, no soliciting or promoting via a publicly accessible website and no promoting your business at trade shows and bridal fairs. Nice work if you can get it.
But, even then, if you contracted for a wedding and only realized later that it was a gay wedding you’d be on the hook anyway.
And here I thought it was cat videos.
An idiot, a hopeless panderer, a strawman erecting loser. The good news; other mouth-breathers will piss away money on her that might have been spent on an equally odious competitor who hides their stupidity better.
Between porn, I actually work to save lives and preserve property in case things blow up. Actually, you are monitored and get fired if you do watch on govt. computers. Hell, even anything that smells or rhymes with anything suspicious is blocked.
What a useless piece of shit. And a crappy business exec.
Cat porn is becoming very popular.
At least, that’s what I hear.
SRIOTD, Turd Polishing Division
Gov. Mike Pence to push for clarification of ‘religious freedom’ law
Right. Sure. Hugh Betcha.
To be fair, the article doesn’t just complain about scientists, it proposes a solution:
“And once more scientists adopt a common sense approach to science, they’ll find that they have the support of conservative politicians.”
He certainly clarified that he’s a fearful bigot, and that the law was there to serve discriminatory purposes…
THIS thing terrifies me. I don’t want it to be real. And yet, here it is.
http://judiciary.house.gov/index.cfm/2015/3/at-the-flick-of-a-switch
Really? I mean, I EXPECT politicians to LIE to me. I expect them to spin things however they want me to see it, to convince me, to garner my votes and support. That’s what politicians DO.
But… to issue a press release… to address an issue … with a bunch of idiotic eyerolling GIFs pasted in? Did some hoary old bewhiskered wardheeler address his staff and say, “All right now, you young whippersnappers with your viral youtubes and series of pipes, I want you to rearrange this press release to look like something you’d find on your Faces Book Thing, with those little moom pitcher things, so it’ll convince the young people of the rightness of our crusade against the evil Muslim Kenyan. Now hop to it!”
Please, ghod, let it be a joke from the Onion or something…
The 90’s called and want their gif infested web page back
“For real?.. Not cool!”
Like, OMG. :eek:
Would have been a lot more effective at winning over the kids if they had added a Pat Boone soundtrack.
Today, Tony Sinclair is officially funnier than I am. 
Damn Jiffy! Since when does string need a theory?
