I would like to see Kirsten Powers or anyone else argue that non-discrimination law forces a gay baker to create a cake that says, “God hates fags!” on it.
If not, its only fair that no one—even religious people—be forced to violate their consciences.
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is this the same kirsten powers who was anthony weiner’s main squeeze?
that kirsten powers?
sexual ‘orientation’ is behavior.
race is an unchangeable fact of biology.
we can criticize behaviors all day long
Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, and the right to take away your rights. Yep that’s in there somewhere. I’m sure of it...
Religeous Liberty is #1 in the Ammendments section. I see nothing about homo’s not being offended in there at all.
It isn’t ‘sexual orientation” it’s ‘sexual DEVIANCE’. A perverted impulse is not the basis for humanity and the rights that flow from humanity. ALL humans have THE SAME rights.
Race isn’t even analogous to race these days.
The issue is even more complicated. States laws forbade racial intermarriage not primarily because it was thought immoral, but because such marriages produced children. The question would then be, which would the child be, black or white? There is a long literature about the difficulties of “breeds” The history of our President seems to be typical of men with a “divided consciousness.” Many quite kind people didn’t like the idea of a “third race” of people who did not belong to the White race or to the Black one and would live out their lives with a special kind of nervous tension. A race of neurotics, so to speak. Sort of like bisexuals.
“This weekend Kirsten Powers and Jonathan Merritt stirred up controversy by writing in the Daily Beast that Christians have no biblical basis for claiming that religious belief should allow them to refuse to serve a same-sex ‘wedding’”?
What are Miss Powers’ and Mr. Merritt’s qualifications for saying whether anything is biblical or not. I don’t know anything about him but she hasn’t claimed to be a Christian for very long. How many times has she read the entire Bible cover to cover and become an expert on such a topic?