Unfair and Unbalanced..

It’s part of those states’ non-discrimination laws, which prohibit businesses from discriminating based on sexual orientation. The same laws that also prohibit discrimination based on things like age, gender, race, religion, ethnicity and disability. Stuff that has also been covered under federal law for a long time.

//That story rings very true, doesn’t it? And I believe everything I read…no.// – I suspect that you believe a good deal of what you read or you wouldn’t believe in the bible. 6 day creation, worldwide flood, a man rising from the dead and flying into the air like superman, talking snakes and donkeys, hands popping out of thin air, the sun moving backwards in the sky, etc, etc…Hell, you even like “the Blaze” of all sources. Why would you doubt this?

//Anyway, as I said, a bully is a bully.// – The difference here though is forvsocial justice. Were blacks being
bullies when they fought for their rights to be served alongside whites? To play in the same sports as whites? To vote as whites do? To demand that they not be beaten to death for simply walking down the street? Sorry but I feel little sympathy for people who believe that gays, atheists, muslims, etc should be put in concentration camps until they die out, forcefully converted by torture if necessary, treated as 3rd class citizens, told I should leave the country since I don’t believe in god, etc…

//The cake case, I feel kind of ‘meh’ about; I think they should have made the cake. But, they chose not to, and instead of finding a gay baker or another shop, the gay customer started what has turned into an ugly sideshow. Sad.// -Part of this I agree w/ however they simply
don’t have the right to refuse service under this condition. As I pointed out businesses do not have the right to put whites only or no jews signs on their doors. I know this is a hard lesson for christians to learn but they have to share the country w/ the rest of us. I’d much rather not go back to the “good ‘ol days” when blacks had to carry green books on them to find which hotels they could stay at.

//I would be disgusted, but would I sue?/ – Each person is different. But I would say if the photographer is actively
trying to drum up business by advertising in yellowpages, word of mouth, business cards, bill and bulletin boards, etc…then no. He’s forfeited his rights to refuse on
supposedly “moral” grounds. If he wants to keep gays out of it, he can cater exclusively to his church.

//Does seem a bit “I’m free from oppressive laws so now I’m going to use the law to crush you!”-ish, doesn’t it? Very sad. Like when you see a bullied person turn into a tormenter once their conditions improve.// – That’s
the way it always appears to the one that the tables have been turned on. To them, the entire paradigm has shifted from where they were the one’s in control to being forced to treat those who they considered beneath them as equals. In a way, it’s really not their fault as to them it was the norm which they saw nothing wrong with especially since they suffered no ill effects of the policies. Now that they are forced to treat people as equals (blacks, gays, atheists, pagans, jews, muslims, etc) believe it’s a personal attack on them.

No one is telling christians that they can’t be christians but rather that if they wanna play on the playground, they have to be nice to everybody. It’s a basic lesson we enforce on schoolchildren that seems to have been lost.