force people into slavery?!?
Is there a middle passage? Are there auction blocks? Or are you feebly trying to gin up fear via hyperbole?
Shout it loudly enough and often enough and the weakest minds in the Social Conservative movement will believe it to be true!
And you radically dilute the meanings of "force" and "slavery" whenever you engage in trite hyperbole.
Slavery, the state of a person who is a chattel of another.
When you tell someone that they have no choice about who they can, and cannot, do business with, you make them a slave. If you have a problem with that, stop.
So, in your mind, Greyhound Bus Line, Woolworth's, Lowes Theaters and every Mom and Pop store, shop and business was"enslaved" when the Jim Crow discrimination laws were overturned? Small towns and big cities alike were "forced" into "slavery" when they were told they could no longer offer 'White's Only" and "Colored" public water fountains? You approve of a society claiming to be the Land of the Free while sanctioning discrimination among its citizens? You approve of state sanctioned 'second class' citizenry?
Do you love America? What is it you love about it? It certainly isn't Americans!
In my mind you are an ignorant asshole.
Public accommodation laws only applied to hotels, motels, restaurants, theaters, and transportation lines that were publicly owned. The owners, and employees, of private businesses were still free to discriminate, but they stopped without the government holding a gun to their heads. The businesses defined as a public accomodation were restricted under the theory that, if that one business denied a service that was vital to life and limb, the person discriminated against might actually die because there wouldn't be another hotel, motel, or restaurant close enough for them to find shelter and food.
Frankly, I find it hard to believe that even you would think that is a real risk today. Feel free to prove me wrong though, it would be enjoyable finding another reason to laugh at you.
Did you know Elaine Photography, the New Mexico business that refused to attend the gay wedding ceremony, also refused to photograph a nudist wedding? Why didn't the nudists sue them? Do you think they actually found another photographer that didn't have a problem taking pictures at a nudist wedding? Only insane people would demand a photographer that hates them which is the only possible reason not to photograph a gay wedding, shoe up and take pictures, yout you think that they should be foxed to simply because you refuse to admit that I am actually right, and that you are wrong.
You want to know why you won't admit I am right? Because you are afraid. You are afraid of someone thinking nasty and bad thoughts about you nless you can dismiss them as a hateful bigot. You keep sticking me into that category even though I have never once said anything that is negative about homosexuals, or homosexuality.
1Corinthians 8 tells Christians that, even if they know something is not a sin, it is still wrong to encourage other Christians that have doubts about it to do it. Paul actually told us that the worst possible thing we could do was to cause another Christian to sin by flaunting our freedom.
He was wrong, but that was because, even though he lived in a culture where silvery was actually legal, and where a state religion actually made it a crime not to offer a sacrifice to Caesar, it was simply inconceivable for him to that one Christian would ever force another Christian to do something that might be sinful. Congratulations on charting territory that is completely outside the experience of guy who lived in a period when slavery was legal and babies were left outside to die of exposure.
