Posted on 04/08/2015 4:30:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
If you cannot discriminate, you are not free.
Until the 1st amendment right to peacefully assemble (freedom of association) is restored, I would advise Christian bakeries / florists to create a service or offering targeted to the gay wedding community.
This offering should be of a witness nature. For example, a cake with the cross and the text of Leviticus 18:22 - “Do not have sexual relations with a man as one does with a woman; that is detestable.”
Allow them to change the color of the frosting or the text and the type of cake. Do not offer custom wording on gay wedding cakes. In this manner, you are providing a service that addresses the needs of the gay community and technically meeting the letter of the law and at the same time providing a witness to God.
Florists can do a similar thing by providing an arraignment of dried flowers with a similar scripture. Not sure how a pizza parlor should respond.
I believe that it may be possible to limit your catering business to “club members”, charge a refundable $1 membership and then refuse membership after a background check. This would remove the catering portion from the public business.
Today it's jail. Tomorrow the camps.
Opposition to "gay marriage" has nothing to do with bigotry Mr. Stossel; it is about concern for the success of future generations, the children of these "families."
I'm so sick of this stupidity.
Religious freedom is explicitly protected in the Constitution. Homosexual rights are not.
Freedom of association is an inalienable right. Why few conservatives complained as this right has been denied over the years I'll never no.
Tell a liberal that one should have the right to discriminate and they'll call you a bigot.
Tell some so-called conservatives the same and they will run away from the issue.
And people who are adhering to their religious teachings are not bigots, Mr Stossel!
But the writer really undermines his libertarian position by applying the term "bigot" to those who are really only asking to be let alone; to have their own preferences, not the Government's preferences--or the preferences of some agitation group.
He also looks ridiculous when he states this belief: "gay marriage is as valid as straight marriage." Anyone with intelligence enough to grasp what marriage has been all about in civilized nations for thousands of years, that is sanctifying the family formation & the procreation of the next generation; ought certainly to understand that that belief is absolutely unsustainable in the realm of reason & logic.
I generally respect what the writer has had to say on a great many subjects. But whatever his personal bias; he needs to recognize when reality trumps any one's wish list.
William Flax
Absolutely!
If I am racist or anti-gay
Meaningless words without definition
the free market will punish me
Punish you for what? Maybe, but again without true definition this is meaningless rhetoric. Hell the 'free market' may reward your stance depending on what it is.
I don't know if Stossel meant that. I think Stossel is saying that we have a right to both bigoted and non bigoted discrimination. I don't think he identified that the adherence to religious teaching is the former.
EXACTLY!!!!!!
The Constitution says I have Freedom of Association.
It also means that I have FREEDOM of NON-ASSOCIATION.
“A right to discriminate” does not mean that “It is right to discriminate.” That depends on particular situations.
In context, in between the other two sentences, it does sound like he is assigning the slur ‘bigot’ to those who have religious convictions.
It also means that I have FREEDOM of NON-ASSOCIATION.
Imma sue Taylor Swift into the poorhouse because she won't associate with me.
That'll show her.
Stossel should be thrown in jail for his intolerance, as shown by this article!
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