What's wrong with treating people equally?

Post #386,727 by Another Scott 2/23/14 11:03:49 PM Reply	What's wrong with treating people equally? Should bakers or florists be able to refuse products or services to the mentally disabled? (Maybe they feel uncomfortable around them, or believe they're possessed or something?) How about people who are missing arms or legs for whatever reason? (Maybe they believe that their body has been defiled or something?) Having a license to sell products or services to the pubic doesn't mean you get to refuse to do so because you don't like their hair color or height or number of toes or way they style their hair or shoe color or religious symbols or ... Wrapping prejudice in a bow of religion doesn't make it less offensive and it doesn't mean it's acceptable. Selling a product or service to someone doesn't mean you have to like them. It's not an endorsement. FWIW. Cheers, Scott.
Post #386,737 by mmoffitt 2/24/14 8:38:24 AM Reply	I guess the difference for me was the purpose. If they'd just been refused service for cupcakes or a potted plant, I think I'd be more sympathetic to the majority's view. But this was for weddings. I'd be willing to wager that they "couples" involved here had at least a decent idea that the florist and bakery in question might refuse to provide wedding ceremony props for a gay couple and that is precisely why those businesses were chosen. And why the need for the products was expressed fully. I think that's what makes my butt start to itch. Last week I had a EE buddy of mine say, "You know, I really don't give a damn what other people do or who they do it with. I'm just sick of having it shoved in my face all the time." The attempt to force everyone to embrace homosexuality as "normal" is doomed to fail. It isn't "normal" in any rational sense of the word (affecting at best estimates < 1.75% of the population). Accepting a "same-sex wedding" as normal is not something I think the majority of Americans (and as we've seen, at least two private business owners) will ever think of as "normal." I don't think they should be punished for that. FWIW.
Post #386,748 by boxley 2/24/14 11:16:41 AM Reply	yeah, like shoving that handicapped thing in your face by going around and finding places that don't comply and suing there ass. All those blue sticker bastards parking in front must really get your buddy's goat too. Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #386,755 by mmoffitt 2/24/14 12:45:32 PM Reply	How many handicapped persons got married at the Grammy's? Wanna explain that nexus to me?
Post #386,773 by boxley 2/24/14 2:04:35 PM Reply	how many handicapped at the grammies? :-) Any opinions expressed by me are mine alone, posted from my home computer, on my own time as a free American and do not reflect the opinions of any person or company that I have had professional relations with in the past 58 years. meep
Post #386,788 by a6l6e6x 2/24/14 4:17:55 PM Reply	There are some mentally challenged! :) Alex ÂThere is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.Â -- Isaac Asimov
Post #386,782 by pwhysall 2/24/14 3:21:40 PM Reply	Homosexuality is normal, you doofus. There are relatively very few gingers in the world, but they're normal (apart from having no soul). Here's the deal: bigots are having their bigotry legislated against. No-one cares what you think, so don't come the old "thoughtcrime" piffle. This is about what you do, and what you do is treat people in protected classes equally when you're in business. It's totally fine to say "no shirt no service", or "not in those shoes mate", or "sorry, we're totally booked up" (with an empty restaurant behind you), but the second you bring sexual orientation into it - well, tough noogies. You're not allowed to do that, any more than you're allowed to post a sign saying "no blacks no dogs no irish".

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