Yes, Dragon Con - Mainstream America all the way
Posted on 02/29/2016 4:49:14 AM PST by madprof98
The print edition of Monday’s AJC carries a lengthy story on metro Atlanta businesses raising new concerns about the “religious liberty” bill that passed the Senate earlier this month. It includes this passage:
"Representatives of the popular annual Dragon Con festival, which brought more than 70,000 people to the metro area in 2015, said in a Facebook post they are monitoring the bill’s progress closely and that 'legislation that hurts one of us, hurts all of us.'"
That measure, House Bill 757, would allow faith-based groups to cite their sincerely held religious beliefs to decline service to couples in relationships with which they disagree.
Gov. Nathan Deal and House Speaker David Ralston have promised changes are coming to the measure, but a growing number of corporate honchos chimed in this weekend with their opposition to the bill.
(Excerpt) Read more at politics.blog.ajc.com ...
Dragon con? Really? Might as well cite opposition from the Midtown pride parade.
Hurts one of us? I guess they think religious people can’t be hurt? Interesting. I think being forced to disobey God or disobey government is pretty hurtful.
The sponsor of the bill, State Senator Josh McKoon is a hero not just on this front, but also in the efforts to do away aith the numerois “secret ballots” allowed in the legislature, including one that allows illegals to get driver’s licenses.
the corporate interests are actually queer interests
Call and write your reps at the Gold Dome. It’s not too late!
Georgia doesn’t care. We have no need for these crypto- fascists who attempt to use the powers of Government to dictate their Leftist moral standards to Georgians
Yes, Dragon Con - Mainstream America all the way
The first amendment protects the right to peacefully assemble. That also includes the right to NOT assemble. One of the reasons to assemble is for the purpose of commerce. Just as the consumer is free to choose, so should the business be free to choose.
The Chamber of Commerce is not a friend of the Traditionalists.
Truthfully, if you want to offer a business to the general public, you should not be surprised to get the lowest order of individuals the general public offers.
However, there is a way around this problem: limit your business, via contract, to “congregants in good standing” of conservative religious denominations, that are in agreement with your values. That is, by contract, you only offer goods and services to people vetted by these churches, *who are legally able to discriminate*.
So it is not *you* who are discriminating, since it is very hard for you to do so in the law; but you are under these churches protective umbrella.
So when “Joe Homo” walks off the street, you ask him to which congregation he belongs. If he says he doesn’t, then tell him you do not sell to the general public, only through contract. If he picks the name of a church off a list, then tell him you will be glad to do business with him as soon as you contact the clergyman of that church to confirm that they are a “congregant in good standing.”
At that point, he will likely leave, more or less in a huff. However, not only does he have no grounds to sue, no matter the state law favoring him; but if he does, he can be sued for fraud.
The end result is that you can keep your values, and you can legally deny service to those who keep the opposite of your values.
Man,
I remember Georgia before Jimmy Carter came along and ruined it.
Low taxes.
No interest in Washington D.C.
No big gub mint.
Not much gub mint at all.
Along came Jimmy, then Ted. Oh God.
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