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originally posted by: celinem
So I'm aware that I am going to receive A LOT of hate for this thread but i feel that there are others that will agree with me on this subject.
We are basically forced to be 'ok' with the idea of gay marriage, transgender people and anyone who we don't consider 'normal'.
Let me say straight up - I DON'T GIVE A # WHAT YOUR SEXUAL ORIENTATION OR 'GENDER' IS!!!! I don't care if you're heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual or whatever..
What really grinds my gears is that we are hounded if we do not support them..
Does anyone else agree that its complete and utter bull# that we are put down if we don't support all of the above? Am i the only one that feels pressured into supporting these people?
Opinions?
originally posted by: celinem
Let me point out that your comments are exactly the issue i am trying to bring up in this thread. You are assuming that my opinion of the LGBQT community is negative because of a 'typical' comment i made. hmmmmm...
a reply to: 3danimator2014
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
If your job is threatened it isn't because you disagree. It's because you refuse to serve a customer because of his color/religion/sexual preference.
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
Try to defend that kind of behavior as much as you want, it's illegal and it's not "disagreeing". It's discriminating.
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
Also it's quite rich you talk about job and business being threatened. You know who risks to be fired or to lose customers if someone decides that they "disagree" with their sexual preferences? That's right, the LGBT crowd.
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
Honestly you couldn't have chosen a worse argument to try to defend your opinion. Just accept th fact that such an opinion belongs to another time and that there is no rationale to support it any longer today. No one asks anyone to agree with the LGBT lifestyle, only to treat them like what they are : normal people who just like something you don't.
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
By constantly trying to tie together these two very different things (refusing their lifestyle - refusing to interact with them) you only illustrate furthermore how terrible such an opinion is. It would be better for you if you'd just stop talking about this all.
originally posted by: veracity
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
If someone's job or business is threatened, because they don't agree, I'd call the person threatening the "ass". Maybe that's just me. No one that knows me has ever called me judgmental, however, and that includes a lot of people, with a lot of different ideas, practices, and beliefs. I can respect that we don't all agree. It would be nice if the group shouting "tolerance" all the time could be so themselves.
What you call "business is threatened" is actually "discrimination to people you just don't agree with". The ASS is the bigot.
keep the hate talk to your own home and when you go out in public just don't be hateful and you shouldn't get sued
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Plus, not making a wedding cake, which is participating in a wedding, or taking photos for the same, also participation, isn't refusing any service; it's refusing a specific service related to an event that violates the person's religious beliefs.
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Plus, not making a wedding cake, which is participating in a wedding, or taking photos for the same, also participation, isn't refusing any service; it's refusing a specific service related to an event that violates the person's religious beliefs.
Do Atheists bakers refuse to make wedding cake for Christians because it violates their beliefs?
No because they aren't stupid.
Your argument is stupid no matter how you try to present it. Some Christians just want gays to be hiding in shame so they don't have to remember they exist at all. Well it's not happening, get over it.
originally posted by: DeadFoot
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Oh, look.
Unintelligible nonsense about cakes not being cupcakes.
Therefore God is real, equal rights don't matter, and gay people shouldn't be allowed to buy things.
What gymnastics team did you train on?
originally posted by: veracity
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
"No, it isn't discrimination to not want to participate in a wedding that is against someone's religious beliefs. In fact, it's discrimination to try and force someone to participate."
It seems like you do not know what discrimination means, that's why you look so clueless.
*snip*
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: SpaceGoatFart
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
Plus, not making a wedding cake, which is participating in a wedding, or taking photos for the same, also participation, isn't refusing any service; it's refusing a specific service related to an event that violates the person's religious beliefs.
Do Atheists bakers refuse to make wedding cake for Christians because it violates their beliefs?
No because they aren't stupid.
Your argument is stupid no matter how you try to present it. Some Christians just want gays to be hiding in shame so they don't have to remember they exist at all. Well it's not happening, get over it.
Bakers have refused some cakes, yes. Confederate flag cakes have been refused, while ISIS cakes were made. Then there is this - fu nny how it isn't discrimination when the cake is on the other foot....
Walid Shoebat, a Christian fascist for his demand that all gay people be “slaughtered” (along with other bizarre positions, like wanting to deny women the right to vote).
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
So you support lawsuits and discrimination charges against these bakers?
originally posted by: LadyGreenEyes
originally posted by: veracity
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
"No, it isn't discrimination to not want to participate in a wedding that is against someone's religious beliefs. In fact, it's discrimination to try and force someone to participate."
It seems like you do not know what discrimination means, that's why you look so clueless.
*snip*
So you support lawsuits and discrimination charges against these bakers?
No w who is violating whose rights?