07-01-2016, 08:08 PM
(07-01-2016, 03:11 PM)taramarie Wrote:(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?).
Jail? They can really send them to jail over there for that? Jail should be for dangerous criminals imho. Jail for this is laughable. However if they do not bake a cake for all who come in for the service it is being prejudiced and as i have mentioned countless times, personal belief should remain personal when working as it has a tendency to stop progress at work. You take that job you will encounter people you do not agree with. Best to find another job in that case if you cannot do it. I do not think this is worthy of jail time. The person is just an asshole. On par with the assholes who discriminate against Jews and blacks and deny service to them not too long ago. To compromise perhaps to the satisfaction of all would be for them to clearly state they do not want to serve these people so people do not go near them and go to someone who will. Within our culture to teach little ones equality (especially in service to others) and let it die out over time as you will never change those who do not want to change. Up to them not us.
No, Tony is making things up, you can't go to jail for refusing to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. The incident Tony is referring to involved some religious conservative bakers who faced a backlash from the public for refusing to serve a gay couple. The usual Religious Right scaremongering got a lot of dumb people thinking that this was somehow the government oppressing religious people.
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