“The measures make it illegal to discriminate against gays in housing and employment. Salt Lake the state's first city to to approve such laws.”
I see no logical reason to discriminate against gays based on housing and employment. If a couple of guys want to rent my rental property, I'm happy to rent it to them. If a couple of gay guys want to buy the house next door, I have no problem with that either. If the gay guy is the best salesman I can find, I'll jump at the chance to hire him. There is just no reason to discriminate in these areas.
In no way does that mean that I agree with their choice to engage in homosexual activities. I would also rent to a straight couple who are shacking up rather than getting married as long as I think they can pay the bill. I will hire a guy who has chosen not to marry his girlfriend. However, in like fashion, I will not agree with his choice to live in sin.
In both cases, I would use these things as example for my children of activities in which they should not engage when they are mature enough to understand such things. Both situations are sins by their participants.
Lastly I still oppose the law because it is unnecessary. People who discriminate in these areas on this basis fools. They will have inferior employees and may get a worse offer on the property they are selling if they discriminate. Let capitalism work.
I am a proud Mormon who stands against the homosexual agenda, but it is a stretch to show how this specific item negatively impacts society outside of the fact that it weakens the system of capitalism.
For transparency reasons, I am surprised by the hostility towards Mormons on this site. I have rarely encountered such negativity. Certainly there are many differences between the beliefs of Mormons and other Christians but I consider other denominations brothers and allies.
Those of us who consider ourselves conservative need to stick together politically even when we do not see eye to eye on religious matters. Shoot, I would welcome most Muslims to a conservative coalition if they had a bit of a reformation and stopped the nut jobs that wanted to kill the rest of us.
>>>For transparency reasons, I am surprised by the hostility towards Mormons on this site. I have rarely encountered such negativity
Collateral damage. Any mud a certain clique here can splatter against the wall hoping it sticks on Romney, they throw. Somehow they seem to think this will make Ron Paul the next leader of the free world. Nobody said they were logical.
It’s just going to get worse as the bozo attacks on Romney rev up. They seem to be posting new threads daily now. On the other hand I was really getting bored with the breathless and generally pointless “exposes” on Megan McCain.
You are changing the subject, no one cares about your personal views, they care about you forcing them to comply with your personal views in their lives too.