Shush, the grownups are talking.
Uh, sorry, man, wrong again.
Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults believe that businesses should not have the right on religious grounds to deny services to customers based on their sexual orientation, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday showed.
www.reuters.com
Nearly three quarters of U.S. adults believe that businesses should not have the right on religious grounds to deny services to customers based on their sexual orientation, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Monday showed.
The findings of the poll, conducted Friday to Monday, were issued on the same day the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a baker from Colorado who had refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his Christian beliefs.
In the poll, 72 percent of respondents said business owners, because of their religious beliefs, should not be allowed to refuse to serve customers based on sexual orientation, while 14 percent said they do have that right. Another 9 percent said businesses have the right “only in certain circumstances” and 6 percent said they do not know.
Really? It was illegal in many parts of this country for mixed race couples to get married up until 1969 until the Loving Decision, and people quoted the bible to rationalize it. When considering Lovings' case, lower court judge Leon M. Bazile said this.
Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, Malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix.[23]
The point is, all sorts of injustices have been rationalized using religion- Witch burnings, slavery, genocide - which modern people would be absolutely horrified about. God didn't change his mind, we changed ours. And when an atheist asks, "Hey, why is this in your bible?" a Christian will give us a rationalization like 'Well, that's the old Testament", or "God was writing for people of that time."
I'll give you another example. When I was growing up in the 1970's, couples living together before marriage was considered a bit of a scandal. It was even called "Living in Sin". Now it's the norm. 75% of couples move in together before getting married. Churches don't say a peep about it.