Do what I damn well please as long as I don't harm anyone? Damned straight I want that. And I'd do business with the gays, I do actually, all the time.
You realize you just admitted that I'm the liberal and you're not....
Regulated Capitalism is neither liberal nor illiberal, it's necessary.
Its also spectacularly irrelevant to this thread. Which is why Kaz is trying to steer the conversation there.
I'm specifically mocking you morons for comparing gays to the struggle of blacks. That is how out of touch today's Democratic party is. You think not having a boscotti with your morning coffee is like living in Nazi Germany, you have no sense of proportion. You are soft, weak and pathetic
Ah, I agree the discrimination against blacks went to the right to vote, own property, go to college ... none of which apply to gays.
But what is the basis for your differentiating the discriminatory effect of refusing to sell an advertised service to a gay person compared to a black person?
If a black person is demanding that a Christian baker bake a cake for a Voo Doo ritual, again, the baker has the right to refuse.
If a black person demands that a Christian baker bake a wedding cake for a Christian ceremony, the baker cannot refuse just because the person is black. Black people get married too, and all Christians recognize that.
There are a TINY faction of the extremist allegedly Christian community who maintain that their racism is rooted in the bible. There's nothing new in whackos claiming their religion justifies their idiocy.
But this is not one of those cases. The homo lobby thinks they can FORCE Christians to serve/pay homage/endorse them, and that if they refuse to endorse their lifestyle, that they have the right to destroy/imprison/fine them. WE ARE NOT OBLIGATED TO ENDORSE OR PARITICIPATE IN YOUR LIFESTYLE. You are perfectly welcome to perform any ritual you like..but we don't have to participate just because you demand it. Even if we provide a service. Marriage is a sacrament, and you cannot force people to participate in sacrilege just because they have gone into business.
This sort of shit is exactly how Hitler sidelined the jews in Poland.