aris2chat
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- Feb 17, 2012
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I'm actually torn on this issue. Not the county clerk--she clearly had the choice to find another job. But the baker, jeez, that was sad. However, now that extremists on both sides have forced the issue into the legal sphere, there is no choice I can see but to say businesses can't discriminate. Otherwise, we'd head right down that slippery slope into refusing to serve ..... whomever we don't like.I'm a bit disappointed and relieved at the same time. Georgia needs the revenue, and it's pathetic to see big corporations use their monetary power to influence the political process (Psssst! Liberals! Isn't that something you hate?).
I remember when tolerance used to be a thing; when both sides were required to exercise it and just not one. But I guess that time has passed.
It's too bad it has to be like this for everyone.
Making this a religious issue not being able morally to make the cake, opened them to legal action.
They could have found a polite way to say no. Instead they make it about the fact the couple were gay.
That is the problem!
If they made it about a black couple, or muslim, the same thing would have happened.
If they refused to sell a women a cake because the way she was dressed or that she did not come with a man, the same thing would have happened.
If a little person came in and the baker wouldn't sell a cake to a child, the same thing would have happened.
Prejudice and hate of other people is wrong. Not very christian either.