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To: rovenstinez

It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument. It’s time to move on.


8 posted on 11/20/2012 1:18:07 PM PST by DonaldC (A nation cannot stand in the absence of religious principle.)
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To: DonaldC

I am sorry but your comment and your tag line don’t match.


15 posted on 11/20/2012 1:24:20 PM PST by funfan
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To: DonaldC
“It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument. It’s time to move on.”

Yeah, and it wasn't that long ago that people were warning not to crush the racists with the force of law or there would be hell to pay somewhere down the line...welcome to somewhere down the line.

33 posted on 11/20/2012 1:41:09 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: DonaldC

Move on my @$$! Religious freedom is one of the cornerstones of a free society. I for one will not accept the HHS mandate or any other law requiring me to pay for someone else’s abortions or contraceptives. I fail to see what relevance questions of racial discrimination have to the issue at hand.


34 posted on 11/20/2012 1:46:36 PM PST by ConorMacNessa (HM/2 USN, 3/5 Marines RVN 1969 - St. Michael the Archangel defend us in Battle!)
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To: DonaldC

Nice bit of equivocating there, Donnie.


35 posted on 11/20/2012 1:47:01 PM PST by tbpiper
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To: DonaldC

A private business is just that, a PRIVATE business. If I owned my own business I should be able to run it how I see fit. If that means NOT supplying contraceptives in the insurance coverage so be it. If that means I want to serve whites only, so be it. People have the right NOT to work for me or frequent my business.


38 posted on 11/20/2012 1:54:10 PM PST by rfreedom4u (I have a copy of the Constitution! And I'm not afraid to use it!)
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To: DonaldC

(It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument. It’s time to move on.)

NONSENSE.
And it is NEVER time to move on from freedom and liberty!


39 posted on 11/20/2012 1:54:25 PM PST by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I sign up for the New American Revolution and the Crusades 2012?)
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To: DonaldC

...as in MoveOn.org ?

What are you doing here on FRee Republic?


40 posted on 11/20/2012 1:54:45 PM PST by ne1410s ("We will not tolerate your intolerance!!!" ...huh?)
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To: DonaldC

I don’t think that anyone ever tried to defend a whites only hiring policy on the basis of religious conscience. Actually the most egregious example of a whites only hiring policy was the Electrical Workers and Machinist Union and I don’t think that they claimed any religious exemption.

Remember, the racists were mostly Democrats.


50 posted on 11/20/2012 2:03:32 PM PST by Eva
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To: DonaldC

What if Hobby Lobby and other CHRISTIANS do not want to just “move on”. What if they answer to someone higher than Obama?


66 posted on 11/20/2012 2:20:52 PM PST by ilovesarah2012
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To: DonaldC; rovenstinez
This is no analogous o a white-only business, because it doesn't represent invidious discrimination against any class of persons.

It is, rather, a move to conscript private business owners into a political agenda, forcing them to facilitate and fund services that violate their religious beliefs and ethical judgments, within their own businesses. It would be analogous to the government requiring the American Cancer Society to give their staffers a monthly carton of Marlboros as a employee benefit, or a drug counseling agency to give out coupons for suicide kits.

79 posted on 11/20/2012 2:51:01 PM PST by Mrs. Don-o (Stone cold sober, as a matter of fact.)
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To: DonaldC
It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument.

There's not a thing wrong with white-only businesses. Or black-only businesses. Or hetero-only businesses.

Either we have a right to free association or we don't.

87 posted on 11/20/2012 3:00:33 PM PST by IronJack (=)
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To: DonaldC

“people were defending white only businesses with the same argument.”

They might have been, but I’ve never heard it. The popular argument was for the right to run white, black, or whatever-only businesses based on freedom of association, which is similar to the constitutional right to peaceably assemble, among others. That’s at least debatable, as it involves 9th amendment reasoning. Religious freedom less so, because it’s there in black and white.

Also, the reason you bring up segregation to buttress a “move on” aegument is because most people have moved on from racism, at least in such a blatant form. I haven’t moved on from freedom of association and property rights, but don’t comment on the Civil Rights Act unless it comes up. Most people aren’t like me in that sense, though they are in the sense that they still believe in the freedom of religion. It may eventually go the way of racism. Not yet.


135 posted on 11/20/2012 4:23:41 PM PST by Tublecane
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To: DonaldC
I smelled some roadkill the other day..and it stunk.

Your logic is worse than that stink.

147 posted on 11/20/2012 5:03:40 PM PST by Osage Orange ( Liberalism, ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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To: DonaldC
It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument. It’s time to move on.

Maybe it is time for you to move on to DU? Conflating religious freedom and conscience with racism and or bigotry is a leftist tactic.

169 posted on 11/20/2012 8:20:22 PM PST by DBeers (†)
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To: DonaldC
It wasn’t that long ago that people were defending white only businesses with the same argument. It’s time to move on.

I think that you're on the wrong forum. DU might be more to your liking.

211 posted on 11/22/2012 8:55:25 AM PST by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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