What if you have an act and if you do it, it's a sin, if you don't do it, it's a sin? Then what?
Like what?
Like not helping people being a sin, as in the good Samaritan story, and when you help someone you're committing another sin.
Of all Christian and Jewish literature, the story of The Good Samaritan is my favorite.
It exemplifies ancient Greek ethics more than anything else does.
Interesting that only St. Luke tells this story, and he was a physician as well.
"Who was a neighbor to him then?" asked Jesus.
Good question !!
And how many of these Christian people who are going around shouting off that people should be able to refuse others they don't like, completely ignore this part of the Bible?
I am not fond of the Protestant far right fringe.
They are as dangerous as their witch burning ancestors.
Now when it comes to businesses, they've signed up to an agreement which means they need to act better than an individual needs to do. Businesses are not FREE to do as they wish, they're businesses. Individuals can make choices. If you don't want to serve gay people then you are FREE not to work in the line of business. It's their choice.
It's not the same thing. There is no gay version of Jim Crow when all businesses and services were denied to blacks. Forcing a business to go out of business because of deeply held religious beliefs is an unreasonable demand when they can go next door and get the same service they seek. Such a social upheaval demanded by libturd wing nuts to conform without debate is unreasonable. You're going to get blowback.
Public accommodation laws are antiquated and rightly should be removed from the law books. Everybody is equal; nobody is really discriminated against anymore.
It's not unreasonable to expect people who sign up to be a business which has to serve all people, to serve all people, is it? I mean, they signed up for this. Then claim they don't have to follow the rules because somehow they're special. But everyone knows about the good Samaritan story. Everyone knows there's nothing in the Bible that says "thou shalt not helpeth gay people get marriedeth", so basically everyone knows that this "religious views" this is crap, and it's just plain prejudice that is driving them and they're hiding behind their religion as justification.
But everyone knows about the good Samaritan story. Everyone knows there's nothing in the Bible that says "thou shalt not helpeth gay people get marriedeth", so basically everyone knows that this "religious views" this is crap, and it's just plain prejudice that is driving them and they're hiding behind their religion as justification.
Everyone knows that it is written: "If a man practices homosexuality, having sex with another man as with a woman, both men have committed a detestable act. They must both be put to death, for they are guilty of a capital offense." — Leviticus 20 v 13 - The Bible
So, the cake bakers did the faggots a favor by letting them walk out of their store unmolested. They should have been grateful for the favor.
And everyone knows it's written:
"And if a man shall take his sister, his father's daughter, or his mother's daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it
is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister's nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity."
"And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people."
"And the man that committeth adultery with
another man's wife,
even he that committeth adultery with his neighbour's wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death."
But funnily enough bakers don't refuse to serve those who committed adultery, nor those who lie with naked woman who are ill, nor those who see their sister naked. Oh, there are more of these two, but the reality is they pick and choose.
But everyone also knows that Leviticus 20:13 has been translated and translated and made into what people want it to be.
"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood
shall be upon them."
This from the King James Bible doesn't mention homosexuality at all. It mentions if a man lie with "mankind", now, my understanding of the word "mankind" is all human beings a collective group. Women being a part of mankind.
"“‘If a man has sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They are to be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads."
This is new international version. It mentions sexual relations with a man. Different to King James.
Leviticus 20:13: Concerning homosexuality
You can see other versions here and you can see the difference. People have decided to add in "sexual relations" or "homosexuality" in there. It doesn't talk about females at all.
However the punishment isn't that you won't be served in a bakery. It's that you'll be put to death. Now, these Christians manage to forego the putting to death, don't they? But they can't forego the serving them in a bakery? Surely by not putting them to death they're sinning already. So if you're sinning already, why make it worse by sinning again and not being a good Samaritan?
