And as increasingly seen, have rejected the Bible and even any traditional moral sense, then there is no end to what class of persons can be covered as a protected class. A man who identifies as a animal can claim discrimination if denied a marriage license to his supposedly mutually loving partner.
And indeed a law that bans helping a person to transition from homosexuality and heterosexual conversion goes beyond the original extension of civil rights, as it is akin to prohibiting counseling a person who seeks deliverance from thinking of himself as an animal.
In this the state has effectively become an enforcer of a secular form of sharia law, forbidding conversion from the faith of the state.
And which is indeed a faith, as classifying a person based upon what they feel like when it is contrary to biology, is certainly no science.
Ping
The libs in Tampa likely have dozens of other sneaky plots up their sleeves.
Misinterpreted of the First Amendment.
The First Amendment only limits one group of people; The Congress.
Read it:
Amendment I (1791)
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Individuals, states, and local governments are not limited. Congress is and Congressmen are not limited from having religious objects or expressing religious opinions. Cities, state governments, and Federal lands and buildings are not prohibited from having the Ten Commandments or a cross or a menorah or a crescent moon and star or manger scene. Prohibiting these are a misinterpretation of the First Amendment.
State and local governments could even specify or ban religions if their constituting documents don’t prohibit it.
Too many people have never read the Constitution and do not know that most of what the Federal Government is doing is not Constitutional.
If I recall correctly ... there has been a long tradition of encouraging and promoting perversion in Tampa. Well, Tampa is not especially unique in this regard, but I remember some lawyer trash-talking a private citizen who got involved in one of the decency-focused organizations/movements.
Lawyers usually love to talk about how the law is amoral. And then they frequently make the illogical argument that immorality is just based on definitions and traditions.
I should have keyed the jerks car.
Talking to kids that don’t want to be homosexual is condemned, but castrating and neutering kids that don’t want to be the sex they were born with is praised. Welcome to clown world.
When I was young, a human that was the same sex as I, was attracted to me, but he didn't get any reciprocity from me.
I sure as he** didn't need any THERAPY to deal with it!