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Re: Trump's Anti-LGBTQ Civil Rights Pick
Your problem is you're totally devoid of legal precedence or common sense. You sound more like a preacher trying to straddle the line between condemning certain acts but not the person, even though that type of person commits those acts 98% of the time. It's a worthless distinction and the courts agree
In lawrence v texas, the ruling was that laws against homosexual sex were out of animus towards and restricted the freedoms of the *class* of homosexuals. In obergefell, the court further linked the class to the action of same sex marriage. You cannot discriminate against the action without discriminating against the person
Not that you agree that orientation or gender identity is something that can't be controlled anyway, but these laws exist for the common good period
And yet in neither case should they. If anti-discrimination laws exist they should only apply to things people can't control, not things people decided to do. If I discriminate against you because of a choice you made, but have no problem with who you are then it is inaccurate to say I discriminated against you because of who you are.
Your problem is you're totally devoid of legal precedence or common sense. You sound more like a preacher trying to straddle the line between condemning certain acts but not the person, even though that type of person commits those acts 98% of the time. It's a worthless distinction and the courts agree
In lawrence v texas, the ruling was that laws against homosexual sex were out of animus towards and restricted the freedoms of the *class* of homosexuals. In obergefell, the court further linked the class to the action of same sex marriage. You cannot discriminate against the action without discriminating against the person
Not that you agree that orientation or gender identity is something that can't be controlled anyway, but these laws exist for the common good period