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

Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

Yes. Refusing to allow a white person to join a black frat is segregation.

Of course it is. The relevant question is whether any law could require black frat members to include whites without violating the black members' First Amendment freedom of association. Considering what the Supreme Court said in Roberts v. Jaycees, especially, I strongly doubt it could.
 
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Yes, there is no harm caused by those actions. If someone comes to you hungry and you do nothing to relieve them of that condition you did nothing but not assist them in their problem. The same thing is true for someone that comes to you needing shelter, healthcare or whatever else you can imagine.
Imagine you were driving across the country. You look and see that your fuel light is on. You know that you have roughly 40 miles left in the tank before you get worried. There's an exit with fuel ahead, and a sign that says next gas 30 miles. But you're feeling good, and making good time. So you decide to press on.

Thirty minutes later you take the exit into a small town. You pull up to the pump, put in your credit card... and wait.. .. Nothing. After a few tries you get frustrated. This is clearly the only gas station in town, and you don't have enough fuel to make it anywhere else. So you walk in to see the attendant, asking why the pump doesn’t' work.. "Oh, we don't serve your kind around here". What do you do? Can you honestly say that you haven't been harmed.
 
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How do you know? Ever try it?
Those exact bars no. Others yes. Why don't you walk in and buy a drink. If they don't serve you then you can file a lawsuit against them. They are legally required to serve you unless you're causing a disturbance or a visibly intoxicated person.
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

Imagine you were driving across the country. You look and see that your fuel light is on. You know that you have roughly 40 miles left in the tank before you get worried. There's an exit with fuel ahead, and a sign that says next gas 30 miles. But you're feeling good, and making good time. So you decide to press on.

Thirty minutes later you take the exit into a small town. You pull up to the pump, put in your credit card... and wait.. .. Nothing. After a few tries you get frustrated. This is clearly the only gas station in town, and you don't have enough fuel to make it anywhere else. So you walk in to see the attendant, asking why the pump doesn’t' work.. "Oh, we don't serve your kind around here". What do you do? Can you honestly say that you haven't been harmed.

When they refused to provide me with gas was there any condition of mine changed? Don't I still have the same amount of gas and won't I still find myself in the same condition if I keep driving?
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

Of course it is. The relevant question is whether any law could require black frat members to include whites without violating the black members' First Amendment freedom of association. Considering what the Supreme Court said in Roberts v. Jaycees, especially, I strongly doubt it could.
Yeah, that's the private/difference. A private club or individual has a lot more leeway. Businesses which operate in the public space don't that freedom.
 
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When they refused to provide me with gas was there any condition of mine changed? Don't I still have the same amount of gas and won't I still find myself in the same condition if I keep driving?

Sounds like an excellent business opportunity for an enterprising young liberal to open a gas station right near the one who doesn't serve "your kind" too. Then he can serve every (insert "kind" here) who he wants to. Win win for all.
 
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No. Where you choose to drink doesn't matter.

You're a segregationist if you support the dominican bars ability to refuse service to non-dominicans.

Look, I know this is a libertarian thing.. where one concentrates on the "principle" of a law and ignore its effects. But there are parts of this country that are VERY racist. And if businesses in these places were allowed to choose to serve whites only, then virtually all of the businesses would serve whites only. So if you support the right of businesses to serve whites only, then you must accept that this would be the result in places. There would be portions of the country denied to blacks. Now that might be an acceptable tradeoff for you, but you can't ignore it.



You think rural indiana is a more or not racist, or racist area? how did even the notion of not wanting to cater a gay pizza wedding's response go?


People aren't as racist as you think.


I am not a segragationisr, I am an anti-prohibitionist.
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

That was from 2006, nine years ago. It doesn't seem to have caught on in any big way.

Yeah, "world wide" just isn't big enough. They should have gone interplanetary
 
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Those exact bars no. Others yes. Why don't you walk in and buy a drink. If they don't serve you then you can file a lawsuit against them. They are legally required to serve you unless you're causing a disturbance or a visibly intoxicated person.

I don't give a damn if someone serves me or not. If for some reason someone doesn't want my business, I'll give it to the guy down the street.
 
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Yes. I think the law would support them as long as they are not refusing to provide the cake.
So we've gone from "Let them eat cake" to "They must provide the cake". Can they have their cake and eat it too?
 
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Yeah, you don't want to be a conservative and gain the ire of the LGBT mafia. **** you up bad they will.
It's all part of their being so 'tolerant', don't you know.

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Murders[edit]
In the U.S., violence directed towards abortion providers has killed at least eight people, including four doctors, two clinic employees, a security guard, and a clinic escort.[8][9]
March 10, 1993: Dr. David Gunn of Pensacola, Florida was fatally shot during a protest. He had been the subject of wanted-style posters distributed by Operation Rescue in the summer of 1992. Michael F. Griffin was found guilty of Gunn's murder and was sentenced to life in prison.[10]
July 29, 1994: Dr. John Britton and James Barrett, a clinic escort, were both shot to death outside another facility, the Ladies Center, in Pensacola. Rev. Paul Jennings Hill was charged with the killings. Hill received a death sentence and was executed on September 3, 2003. The clinic in Pensacola had been bombed before in 1984 and was also bombed subsequently in 2012.
December 30, 1994: Two receptionists, Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols, were killed in two clinic attacks in Brookline, Massachusetts. John Salvi was arrested and confessed to the killings. He died in prison and guards found his body under his bed with a plastic garbage bag tied around his head. Salvi had also confessed to a non-lethal attack in Norfolk, Virginia days before the Brookline killings.
January 29, 1998: Robert Sanderson, an off-duty police officer who worked as a security guard at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, was killed when his workplace was bombed. Eric Robert Rudolph, who was also responsible for the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing, was charged with the crime and received two life sentences as a result.
October 23, 1998: Dr. Barnett Slepian was shot to death with a high-powered rifle at his home in Amherst, New York.[11] His was the last in a series of similar shootings against providers in Canada and northern New York state which were all likely committed by James Kopp. Kopp was convicted of Slepian's murder after being apprehended in France in 2001.
May 31, 2009: Dr. George Tiller was shot and killed by Scott Roeder as Tiller served as an usher at a church in Wichita, Kansas.[12]
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According to statistics gathered by the National Abortion Federation (NAF), an organization of abortion providers, since 1977 in the United States and Canada, there have been 17 attempted murders, 383 death threats, 153 incidents of assault or battery, and 3 kidnappings committed against abortion providers.[13] Attempted murders in the U.S. included:[8][14][15]
August 1982: Three men identifying as the Army of God kidnapped Hector Zevallos (a doctor and clinic owner) and his wife, Rosalee Jean, holding them for eight days.[16]
August 19, 1993: Dr. George Tiller was shot outside of an abortion facility in Wichita, Kansas. Shelley Shannon was charged with the crime and received an 11-year prison sentence (20 years were later added for arson and acid attacks on clinics).
July 29, 1994: June Barret was shot in the same attack which claimed the lives of James Barrett, her husband, and Dr. John Britton.
December 30, 1994: Five individuals were wounded in the shootings which killed Shannon Lowney and Lee Ann Nichols.
October 28, 1997: Dr. David Gandell of Rochester, New York was injured by flying glass when a shot was fired through the window of his home.[17]
January 29, 1998: Emily Lyons, a nurse, was severely injured, and lost an eye, in the bombing which also killed off-duty police officer Robert Sanderson.
 
Re: Indiana's 'No Gay Wedding' Pizzeria Has Closed

So we've gone from "Let them eat cake" to "They must provide the cake". Can they have their cake and eat it too?



I wonder how many bakers be like "they want dick in thier cake, I'll give them dick in thier cake"!!!!!


:lol:
 
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Protected classes keep a division, one that is often subconsciously or not, designed to keep that voting block/divide. Soft racism.

Yes, protected classes divide people up into groups such as those who have a sexual orientation and those who don't, and those who have a race and those that don't
 
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Yes, protected classes divide people up into groups such as those who have a sexual orientation and those who don't, and those who have a race and those that don't


This really says a lot of nothing, thanks tho....
 
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Why would a gay couple want someone opposed to their lifestyle to participate in their day anyway?

and why would a black person want to be driven on a bus where the driver didnt want them? :shrug:
 
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I wonder how many bakers be like "they want dick in thier cake, I'll give them dick in thier cake"!!!!!


:lol:
Seriously...that would be my response. I would never PUT something in their cake...but if they for some reason had concern that it was maybe not exactly my best effort...well...hey...that will still be $793.26
 
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and why would a black person want to be driven on a bus where the driver didnt want them? :shrug:

Nonsense....The bus may be the only means of transportation on a particular street....Surely there are Baker's, and Catering company's that would more than love to have the business, and put their heart into it to boot....So, if you want to have someone cater for you that doesn't want to do it in the first place I say go for it, but don't complain when the product you receive is crap.....After all it is dumb for you to hire someone that doesn't want to work for you.
 
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I don't give a damn if someone serves me or not. If for some reason someone doesn't want my business, I'll give it to the guy down the street.
Meanwhile, back in today's real world....
 
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Well then in that case you shouldn’t have any problem with sexuality being declared a protected class.

You are encountering the widespread Social Conservative Amnesia Movement (aka SCAM) which requires tb to forget that she was an expert when it came to deciding if LGBT's and the religious need protection but forgot about that expertise when you asked her about old people. And then there's the Rev, who forgot he said businesses should be allowed to discriminate.
 
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I have previously asked for someone to show me where in the previous legislation such a thing existed or didn't.

The fact that the law was changed in order to ensure that gays are not discriminated against should be enough. The law itself specifically singled out the one group of people who use their religion to discriminate and basically told them "We won't get involved!". Continuing to ignore that fact doesn't change the reality of the matter.

I haven't received a response. If nothing happens, then nothing happens in spite of fears of what might or could happen. We have serious laws regarding murder, and yet murder remains in spite of those laws. Laws don't prevent discrimination. Humans do personally - one at a time.

Laws don't prevent murder. Should murder no longer be criminalized? :)
 
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