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To: Pollster1
Thanks for posting the bill. So if I'm a photographer who does not want to take "wedding" photos for a lesbian couple, am I not able to refuse purely on moral grounds? It appears I have to show my decision is based on my religious beliefs, not just my opinion, my morals. How can a government force a business to provide a good or service it does not want to make, regardless of the "why"?

Didn't the 13th amendment do away with slavery? It says as follows:

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
128 posted on 02/26/2014 6:36:06 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: Girlene

Those rights no longer apply under the Living Constitution. You can either:

(1) lie to the gay-activist customer, most likely accepting the job and then cancelling either a few days later or at the last minute due to a personal/family issue/emergency or health reasons (a polite way of saying that perverts make you ill), or

(2) face unjust courts knowing that you will probably lose, just as MLK accepted the punishment of unjust laws.

I respect either option, given the need to weigh the family costs of overtly fighting evil against the morality of using dishonesty to avoid evil and leaving the fight to others.


132 posted on 02/26/2014 6:42:29 PM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Girlene

There is nothing preventing a business from denying homosexuals goods or services that the business provides to the general public. Under neither federal nor state (AZ) law would the homos have any claim to make. Sexual orientation is not covered as a protected class. Calm down folks.


147 posted on 02/26/2014 6:57:15 PM PST by Benito Cereno
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