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Re: Tampon-waving woman demands officials protect her right...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Wednesday, September 16 2015, 17:25:09 (UTC)
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...it's funny. If your religion tells you to discriminate against people, then your religion is clearly wrong...because no system of "morals" should do that...

We also have to define the word "discriminate" better. Merriam Webster, not the best source, defines "discriminate".....

"to unfairly treat a person or group of people differently from other people or groups."

...our Law simply states that you can't do that, that's all....that people have equal rights under the law, that's all. There is no attack on conscience or religion in that. If YOU don't want to share a room with Gay people, or the right to marry, then don't go into a room with Gay people...or don't marry a Gay person...what the Law doesn't allow you to do, no matter your conscience, is keep some people OUT of that room...or refuse them the right to marry.

...You don't like Gay people...you don't like their being able to marry. You don't like vanilla ice cream...in fact your God TELLS you not to like vanilla ice cream. Fine, then don't EAT vanilla ice cream....but your God or your conscience has no right to tell ME that I must not eat vanilla ice cream.

...the peculiar mindset of religious folk and their insistence that facts and evidence are not required for the religious life and for Faith, has made them, understandably, hate science, or logic or even Reason...you can understand why...science challenges their foolishness, especially their reverence for ignorance and the ease with which they can hold "opinions" without ever bothering to LEARN anything besides the Bibble.

..this is why they make such a poor showing anywhere where logic and reason and even Law prevail, like in court. They spout and rant on FOX and go on and on seeming to make "sense", albeit with a logic all their own...but when they come to court their arguments fall apart completely because there is no sense to them, just "faith"...this is the way they BELIEVE things should be, and not just for them, but for all the rest of us...THAT's when they cross the line.

If your religious conscience demands you deny fair and just and decent treatment to other people, then there is something wrong with YOUR religion, not with the people you don't like.

..the key word in that definition is "unfairly"...meaning also unjustly, without good reason. There is no good reason to treat Gay people unfairly or unjustly...none at all EXCEPT "my God tells me to"...that may work in Saudi Arabia, but it shouldn't become our sharia law in America.



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