Posted on 04/04/2015 5:45:21 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
What do white evangelicals, Muslims, Mormons, blacks, conservative Republicans, and immigrants from Africa, South America, and Central America all have in common? They're less likely to support gay marriage than the average Californian.
Over the years, I've patronized restaurants owned by members of all those groups. Today, if I went out into Greater Los Angeles and chatted up owners of mom-and-pop restaurants, I'd sooner or later find one who would decline to cater a gay wedding. The owners might be members of Rick Warren's church in Orange County. Or a family of immigrants in Little Ethiopia or on Olvera Street. Or a single black man or woman in Carson or Inglewood or El Segundo.
Should we destroy their livelihoods?
If I recorded audio proving their intent to discriminate against a hypothetical catering client and I gave the audio to you, would you post it on the Internet and encourage the general public to boycott, write nasty reviews, and drive them out of business, causing them to lay off their staff, lose their life savings, and hope for other work? If that fate befell a Mormon father with five kids or a childless Persian couple in their fifties or a Hispanic woman who sunk her nest egg into a pupusa truck, should that, do you think, be considered a victory for the gay-rights movement?
Before this week, I'd have guessed that few people would've considered that a victory for social justice. And I'd have thought that vast majorities see an important distinction between a business turning away gay patrons—which would certainly prompt me to boycott—and declining to cater a gay wedding. I see key distinctions despite wishing everyone would celebrate gay marriage and believing Jesus himself would have no problem with a baker or cook acting as a gay-wedding vendor.
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We need state laws that SPECIFICALLY protect Christians from being forced to violate their beliefs. Any subsequent criminal retaliation? The perps receive TRIPLE the fine/sentence oridnary implemented for the same crime.
Like the blacks attacking whites in our larger, democrat-controlled cities across America, they're trying to bait us into a violent response so Barky's handlers can impose Martial Law.
Not only should they be destroyed, but we should then force them to watch the gay couple consummate, Clockwork Orange style, in order to overcome their perverted beliefs that gay is wrong!
Oh... wait...
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Let’s turn that question around and see how the Left likes it: Should people who seek to redefine the Christian concept of marriage to please and accommodate perverts be destroyed?
I think I like this version better.
Someday they will be forced to live up to their own standards when the tide changes and it will as the consequences of allowing them to run amok and destroy people’s lives begins to become evident. They are only a special class as long as the government and its gay leaders give them cover and support. The day that depopulation is no longer needed the government will turn their backs on them and dump them faster than an NFL player’s wife whose husband gets cut from the team...
Not Mom and Pops, not medium or large businesses. No one.
This is a willful blindness. So consumed are they with the desire to conform to their "official groupthink" that they can't even think outside that paradigm. And they don't care about anyone or anything else.
This is why Leftists are so dangerous. They're crazy! Seriously, dangerously crazy!
Someone tell me what the difference is between the ISIS hating Christians and the gay gestapo. Outside of the killing that ISIS uses what is the difference? Hating Christians seems to be the action of the day for the so-called progressives. They find myriad ways to condemn a religion while acting in the most perverted ways this country has ever seen. If this isn’t the start of the free fall to destruction of the USA then I must be missing something.
The Left in this nation strains at the gnat of Christians not wanting to fawn all over the behavior of a small segment of society; while keeping their heads in the sand as gay and lesbian people are tormented and slaughtered by extremists in ever-increasing parts of the world.
Christians don’t support homosexual marriage either...
RE: Christians don’t support homosexual marriage either...
So, What does that make the leadership of the Presbyterian Church (USA), who recently accepted gay marriage and ordained two lesbians?
We have one of those religious liberty laws in committee here in GA but it did not make it to the floor of the legislature for a vote this session. Hopeufully soon.
Repeal the Civil Rights Act. Restore the natural right of freedom of association.
Apostate Christianity. FWIW, a lot of “Christians” will fall, if the Parable of the Ten Virgins has anything to do with Christ and his followers in the last days.
The politicians won’t admit that we’re screwed until it’s too late, or just too obvious to deny anymore. The politicians in Washington wouldn’t admit the Dust Bowl existed until the clouds from the Midwest had reached the Eastern Coast. My only bet is that for most people, when the welfare and/or the government collapses, it will be a surprise, since the politicians will act as if it’s all okay until SHTF.
Wasn't this covered in the Parable of the Florist? Many middle eastern iron age folks were down with the struggle!
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