Posted on 09/17/2013 5:20:00 AM PDT by markomalley
In a 2-1 decision, the 8th US Circuit Court of Appeals struck down the Minnesota Park Board’s restrictions on a local man’s distribution of Bibles during an annual gay pride festival.
Brian Johnson, who sought to distribute the Bibles at the festival, said he “would ‘gladly hire a homosexual at my business if he/she could do the job,’ but expressed his belief that the Bible specifies homosexual conduct as a sin,” according to the decision. Johnson “elaborated that he tries to avoid the subject of homosexuality when passing out Bibles at the Festival, and he does not believe that homosexual or heterosexual temptations, in and of themselves, constitute sin.”
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God forbid they would do it to the Koran.
Most homosexuals will decline the offer of the Bible, but perhaps a few can be saved. It’s not as if they are being forced to take them.
HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.
“HOMOSEXUAL, because there’s nothing GAY about it.”
Calling it a disorder is HOMOPHOBIC! Just ask the American Psychiatric Association, who removed it from the list of mental illnesses.
“Calling it a disorder is HOMOPHOBIC! Just ask the American Psychiatric Association, who removed it from the list of mental illnesses.”
Psychiatrists are quacks at best practicing a phony science and all their attempts to normalize deviant behavior have had a huge negative consequence on society.
This is a superb example of somebody doing everything right, as far as the law is concerned. Everything he was quoted as saying has a legally protective meaning, and dispels the arguments that can be made against him in court.
His statements are so well tailored they could be included as a footnote to the case in a law textbook.
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