07-01-2016, 11:32 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-01-2016, 11:32 AM by Eric the Green.)
(07-01-2016, 07:37 AM)Anthony Wrote: "Force those beliefs"?
If a baker goes to jail because s/he won't bake a cake for a same-sex wedding, who's forcing what beliefs on whom?
Yet this opens the door for the compromise that will end this battle in the Culture Wars once and for all: Pass ENDA, which would ban job, housing etc. discrimination against gays nationwide - but in return allow people of faith to opt out of aiding and abetting same-sex weddings, and also defund Planned Parenthood so that people of faith don't have to subsidize, with their tax money, something their beliefs teach is murder (and not for nothing, but did Exodus International ever receive government funding?).
Let's not do that.
I don't approve of many things which the majority and their representatives vote to fund. It's up to the people and congress whether to fund planned parenthood or not, no doubt. But P.P. offers many helpful services, as Trump says. One possible compromise might be to fund only those other services, and not abortions, which are a small part of their practice.
If someone wants to buy a cake, why should that concern the baker if they are gay? Yes, that is imposing and forcing beliefs on them to deny cake for a same-sex wedding. I suppose if they don't want a fight, they could just go to another baker. Or the employee involved could just defer to someone else in the store.
I don't know what the penalities are for discrimination in housing for blacks, etc. I imagine the law requires compliance, if someone or some institution sues the discirminator. I don't know if the discriminator goes to jail or not.