We Should Start Denying Services To GOPPERS And Fundy Nuts Supporting Anti LGBT Bills.

[TheMastersNemesis]

[theHandpuppet]

1. I guess we could always start our own religion

One that states that according to our beliefs, bigots should not be served.

[TheMastersNemesis]

2. These Laws Are Dangerous Precedents. Why Stop With Gays. What About Moslems, Atheists, etc.

[hobbit709]

3. That's where they want to go.

[Arkansas Granny]

4. Absolutely. They want legalized discrimination for anyone

who doesn't believe just as they do. After all, they see it as their gawd given right and they'll claim persecution if they don't get their way.

[theHandpuppet]

6. Exactly!

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me

-- Rev. Martin Niemöller

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Legally speaking, LGBT people have zero Federal protection while religion is highly protected

so 'Moslems' and atheists are protected by law, right now, while LGBT people, right now, can be fired for being gay in 29 of the most religious and conservative States.

[theHandpuppet]

7. I'm not sure if these new laws could be used against people of various faiths...

... but according to the way some of these new state laws are being written, I think it's quite possible. Actually, I hope to hell they could be interpreted that way because that -- more than discrimination against LGBTs -- would insure these laws would get tossed out by the courts, and fast. Let these laws work against the rights of the bigots, let them see how that shoe fits.

[theHandpuppet]

9. This is the kind of thing I was talking about

http://www.ensignmessage.com/archives/discrimination.html

Read through the extremist's screed on how their interpretation of the Bible actually supports discrimination... all manner of discrimination, including that against people of other faiths. We can suppose by this logic that it wouldn't be long before religious fundamentalists would turn on one another in which case, these new "states rights" bigot bills would soon vanish, much sooner than they would if the bills were limited only to discrimination against LGBTs. Once you open the floodgates to discriminate, you can't pick and choose just one glass of water to drink. You'll eventually drown in your own folly.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. But again, fact is that the First Amendment protects religious people from discrimination today

while it does no such thing for LGBT, nor does any other Federal law. Today's reality is that religious people have passed a law allowing discrimination against gay people. There are no Federal protections for LGBT people. It is a law made by religious straights to harm LGBT people of faith and of no faith.

[n2doc]

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