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Re: Should businesses be allowed to not violate their their conscience/religious beli
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In other words, the ones who are refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple because of their "Christian" beliefs need to go back and learn what the Bible does say...and what the Bible does not say.
Selling a regular cake and selling a gun to someone is one thing.Someone telling you they need a gay wedding cake or they want a gun to kill their neighbor,ex-wife,husband or whoever is a totally different thing and it makes you an accomplices in the gay wedding and the murder .
I am pretty sure the bible does not say you can be an accomplice is someone's sin. Jesus didn't buy the prostitute some hooker clothes, nor did he help the tax collector invent new ways of screwing people out of their money.And one more thing - what religion requires its adherents to open stores at all? If a religion says "don't do business with such and such a group", then don't have that kind of business to begin with. For instance, my own religion forbids gay marriage...but there is NOTHING in the Bible that says, "Don't do business with gay people". Nowhere in the Bible does it say that we must not do business with sinners in general.
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In other words, the ones who are refusing to sell a wedding cake to a gay couple because of their "Christian" beliefs need to go back and learn what the Bible does say...and what the Bible does not say.
So if I had a bakery, sure, I'd bake them that cake - it's their money, and the fact that I'm selling that cake to them is no more supportive of gay marriage than selling guns is supportive of murder.
Selling a regular cake and selling a gun to someone is one thing.Someone telling you they need a gay wedding cake or they want a gun to kill their neighbor,ex-wife,husband or whoever is a totally different thing and it makes you an accomplices in the gay wedding and the murder .