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Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed[W:1581]

Good morning, F&L. :2wave:

Keep repeating - up is down, black is white, good is bad - you know the routine. :lol:

Makes me wonder how they never stumbled on to "poor is rich". When you're repeating inane things, seems like you'd sooner or later trip yourself up on something that would make you sit down and shut up.
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

I posted this on another thread and nobody disputed it:

The legalization of gay marriage gave homosexual people the right to marry each other over the objections of both the religious, and non-religious, who believe that marriage should remain as it has throughout human history, as the joining of one man, to one woman. Having that right to marry, should not be a licence to force the participation of those who in doing so, would violate the tenets of their religion. In other words, the obtaining of a right by one group, shouldn't result in the sacrificing of a right by another group.

But there's more...

A gay couple having a formal ceremony with food, a photographer, a cake, music, etc... is a 100% optional activity and totally unnecessary to exercise their right to become a legally married gay couple. How can anyone justify that a person be legally compelled to defy their religious beliefs and participate in an event/ceremony that has no effect what so ever on the rights of gay people to wed?

It's clear that choosing not to cater to a gay wedding based on religious grounds, is not discrimination against gay people, but discrimination against a ceremony that has been deemed sacrilegious for thousands of years. Laws have been passed so that nobodys religious rights can infringe on a homosexual's right to engage in a same-sex marriage, so why shouldn't there be laws passed that assure that a homosexuals rights to wed, doesn't infringe on anyones religious rights and beliefs?

Isn't that not only fair, but the way it should be?

The cake and flowers aren't about the right to marriage, they're about the right to goods and services available to the public.
 
Makes me wonder how they never stumbled on to "poor is rich". When you're repeating inane things, seems like you'd sooner or later trip yourself up on something that would make you sit down and shut up.


The word "poverty" is to the socialist what "sin" is to the Puritan, a bludgeon to be wielded and exploited at every opportunity. Conferences and "think tanks' are staged at routine intervals and always after an electoral defeat, to remind us all that socialism really does have a heart and they "care". The poverty line has been rising in this country for three decades, while we have issues, "poverty" is mostly mental illness and substance related.

How they define "poverty" alters with the situation, do not ever try to pin them down, if you do not have a television news camera stuck in their gaping maws they go ape **** and scream "fascist".

Oh, but they do. The slogans we hear are the ones that worked! There have been some classic blunders by these fools in Canada, promising to nationalize "all no farm land" was very clever. But we live in an age of the Gruber, the "low information voter" where a three word slogan replaces dialogue, today a "war is peace" is likely to work.

Anyone interested in politics and "bending the message" needs so see a film called "Land of the Blind" with Donald Sutherland and Ralph Fiennes. "Nothing is better than steak." comes to mean "nothing" is preferable to eat over steak.
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

The cake and flowers aren't about the right to marriage, they're about the right to goods and services available to the public.
Said right does not exist
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

Said right does not exist

Whatever. It's not part and parcel with the right to marriage is what I meant.
 
Good that you recognize it

of course the content of that posters posts are clearly dishonest and hypocritical. Everybody educated and objective sees that.
 
It is called free speech. It is not always pretty. It is sometimes very ugly and hateful. But we believe in allowing it in our country. Just as some religious folk can stand on street corners and preach that fags are going to burn in hell and hand out their literature.
I wouldn't compare those who are threatening the staff and owners of Memories pizza with the Westboro Church crazies, but they live in the same area code.
 
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