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One of the European countries.
All the same, eh?
One of the European countries.
True law can never condone such disgusting behavior. The documents which do so and purport to be laws are only corruptions of law, and no one is bound to obey them.
Unless they don't want to suffer the consequences of violating the law.
"Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself." ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Really? So if Obama decides he doesn't like tanning establishments, he can have them all closed down and there's nothing the owners could do about it in court because they never had the right to open those businesses in the first place? That's what you believe?
That too. I don't recall anything in the Constitution that grants us the right to demand service from any business.
I believe the legal term is "compelling state interest".
I think private clubs are allowed to exclude "customers" based on those categories.
Unless they don't want to suffer the consequences of violating the law.
The consequences of violating real laws are much much worse.
I assume you mean religious our moral laws, but no one is asking YOU to violate any such law. All the 'fake' laws require is if you own a business, you provide goods or services to them like you do the other sinners on earth, which is all of us and you.
Do you mean the wedding cake maker who accepted an order to make a cake with a green pentagram on it for a coven to celebrate the solstice? Or was it the one who made a wedding cake for a dog wedding?And these "goods and services" can include things which celebrate their disordered conduct, as in the case of the wedding cake maker.
Do you mean the wedding cake maker who accepted an order to make a cake with a green pentagram on it for a coven to celebrate the solstice? Or was it the one who made a wedding cake for a dog wedding?
I'm not going to play this game.
The consequences of violating real laws are much much worse.
That's your opinion and nothing more. Hope you will enjoy having SSM legalized. It's people like you whom I toast each time a state recognizes SSM.
And these "goods and services" can include things which celebrate their disordered conduct, as in the case of the wedding cake maker.
There is no such thing as same sex marriage. It can no more be legalized than square circles.
I'm not going to play this game.
As the Supreme Court prepares to decide the future of same-sex marriage--an institution described as "newer than cellphones or the internet by one justice last year--two things are clear.
Despite this year's breathtaking string of lower court victories, the battle for marriage equality hasn't been swift or easy. To the lawyers who devised the legal strategy decades ago, the journey has been arduous, the setbacks plentiful, and the battle scars deep.
And even after the high court rules--most likely striking down state bans on gay marriage at the end of its term in June--the fight won't be over. Another clash looms over the issue of religious freedom.
Read the article here: Gay marriage, once inconceivable, now appears inevitable
It looks like this battle has reached an important point.I don't believe that the 1st Amendment will stop this from happening.
Churches will be able to do what they want to do, but businesses will have to obey the law whether they like it or not.
Businesses should be able to hire whomever they want.
Most bible thumpers don't like to play this game because it points out their hypocrisy.
Yes, we should return to the 1950s with "white only" restaraunts. :roll:
I don't believe opposition to gay marriage in some cases has anything to do with "bible thumping."
Some gays are just way too flamboyant for me to tolerate.....
Not to mention I don't like the fact that some gays think they can just do whatever the hell they want even if it's not socially acceptable just because they're "gay" hence in their mind they're a "protected class."
I wouldn't go that far - that is just illogical, however if a business wanted to do that then they should be able to.
There are plenty of "black only restaurants" and there are plenty of black owned businesses who only hire blacks, some Mexican and Asian restaurants do the same.
Sure it does, it is the MAIN reason that is given for being against it. Now is everyone that is anti-SSM a bible thumper? Nope, but the majority are.
And some bible thumpers are way too "in your face" for me too. But I don't go around making it illegal for them to get married.
Just like some heterosexuals do in MArdi Gras, at bars, etc. There are always those who are bad apples in a group. That isn't the majority of gays though. Just like some bible-thumpers stand on street corners, get in your face with psalms, etc.
Please show me a restaraunt that disciminates against whites and only allows blacks inside. Go right ahead.