Indiana Pizza Shop 1st to Publicly Say It Would Deny Same-Sex Service
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Ok, so, what if I contact a Muslim owned bakery and agree to give them 90% of the take if I record a phone call wherein I ask them to bake me a cake that says "Mohamed the great child molester" wrapped in bacon, they refuse of coarse and I claim some sort of special-case-ness angle. Post it on YouTube, the bakery shuts down, 4 billion Muslims world wide send in cash.....
$495,736.00 as of 8:00am this morning.
zoo22
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So the whole reason for the law is out the window now.
Well, it depends. If the reason for the law was for Christians to discriminate against homosexuals, yes, that's mostly out the window (although it's actually still legal in Indiana to discriminate against homosexuals). If it was really to protect small Christian businesses from lawsuits, no.
You know how advocates of the law have been saying "well they have this same law in 19 other states, and Clinton signed it, so what's the problem!?" Now the Indiana law is (pretty much) the same as the laws in the other states.
Here's a good and interesting explanation of it:
Indiana's 'Religious Freedom' Law Differs From Other States
Ya know, if a guy were totally cynical, he'd suspect this is what the proprietors had in mind all along.
The state laws don't mean anything if someone can prove their civil rights were violated.
A Civil Rights violation means a Federal court.
Good point.
So you'd say you're opposed to mandatory prayer, anywhere, at any time?
WizardofOz
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That's my take. This was an uproar over nothing.
Just a lot of people playing the victim when there were never victimized to begin with. :allsmile:
zoo22
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I assume you mean the poor persecuted Christians.
If by media savvy you mean she owns a tv and likely saw the localized responses to Chick fil A a while back then yeah, is familiar with the people who tend to eat there and the community, sure. I don't think you even have to really be cynical or suspect her motives.
For instance, in most parts of the rural South Chick fil A had tremendous sales after the owner's public comments. Completely predictable response if you know (and anyone around here watching local broadcasts would) that seventy percent of the population is opposed to gay marriage.
And the "damage" continues. Anybody actually harm anyone on the anti homosexual bandwagon? And the people who make bandwagons have to be raking it in...what?
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zoo22
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Hard to say, but I'm pretty sure the end goal is to restore the freedom to burn witches.
It's called freedom.
It's not OK to be gay.
:mock: Granite.
That homo is probably getting ideas.
shagster01
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What these businesses need to do is become "specialty" businesses. For example, a wedding cake store should say that they specialize in heterosexual wedding cakes. It's not that gays can't buy them, but they are buying a hetero-style cake. Every cake comes with a man and a woman on top, but gays are more than welcome to buy two cakes and rearrange the men and women themselves if they want two men on a cake.
This is done all the time with hair products. There are companies that make products specifically for African-American hair. White people are welcome to buy it, but the company isn't going to change their product for a white customer. You either want what they sell or you don't.
This is done all the time with hair products. There are companies that make products specifically for African-American hair. White people are welcome to buy it, but the company isn't going to change their product for a white customer. You either want what they sell or you don't.
Or sell wedding cakes with individual bride and groom figures sold separately. If you want two of one kind, that's your business. But no one involved with this wants an equitable solution. They want to win and force someone else to agree with them.
shagster01
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Then you agree that the African-American hair product companies must be forced to make product for my hair too, right?