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Some Muslim bakers won't make a cake for queer weddings either. Why do we never hear about the queer mafia targeting them?You seem to have a problem understanding distinctions. Not calling Hispanics "spics" is politically correct and is a good thing. Referring to transgenders as "Ze" or "Xemself" is out-of-control political correctness.
That's not what you said. You didn't say that what I was proposing was going back to segregation, you said: "You want to go back to segregation." There's no ambiguity here, you asserted that I want to go back to segregation.
If it's not what you meant then I suggest you choose your words more carefully next time.
I understand completely.
You seem to have a problem between allowing shop owners to refuse service to people and calling people names.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
As soon as you start allowing shop owners to refuse service to other people based on prejudice, you've created a second class of citizenship, just like black people were a second class of citizen way back when.
I've already said that I don't condone what the shop owner did. I've also said that I am basically on the fence as to whether or not they had the right to do it. Part of my problem is that you and others arguing against the shop owners have avoided the elephant in the room: The people who called the shop and were verbally abusive and issued threats to them and their family.
So let me ask you a few questions. And these are not rhetorical questions, I would actually like you to answer them if you're willing.
1.) Are you okay with people like that advancing the cause for gay rights in such a way?
2.) Do you not see "We're coming for you and your family" as hateful?
3.) Do you not see that calling someone a "fake Christian" is as judgmental as the shop owner's behavior?
What I mean is, and what we've been talking about for a few posts now, is about being able to deny service to people.
If, in your own country, you're refused from service in one shop, and it becomes legal, then you'll be refused by more shops.
69% of people are Christian. 2% Jewish, 1% Muslim. Imagine that you get refused service in 72% of shops. Imagine the area you live in you get refused service in 100% of shops.
You're a second class citizen. Just as black people were with segregation. Hence the segregation comment.
The point with the verbal abuse is that it wouldn't have happened had the owners kept within the law. The gay people probably know that the law isn't going to do much about it either.
Do I condone what they did? Sure. But sometimes there are times when people get angry, when they want revenge, when they feel they have treated in such a way by a bunch of bigots and they go do stuff like this.
Like I said, if you have this bigotry legalized, then people are going to take things into their own hands.
So the answer is to stop the bigotry, make it illegal, haul those who break the law into court and treat them like everyone else who breaks the law, then you won't put others in a position where they want to do something like those gay people.
That video was highly edited and proven to be fake years ago
You're a liar.