Quote Originally Posted by SrslySirius View Post
Quote Originally Posted by FR1GHT View Post

OK, but the whole point behind freedom, which nobody seems to understand is that it's OK to not agree with your neighbors.

This is supposed to be a place where you can be free and exercise your beliefs. By trying to force somebody else to do something against their beliefs means they are no longer free.

Their freedom has been stripped in the interest of another group. Do I really need to continue? I've said the same thing ten different ways.

Being denied something from people who don't share your beliefs is not stripping your freedoms. To force somebody to do something against their beliefs is stripping their freedoms.
Your right to believe what you want is not being threatened by laws like this. It is not establishing a new religion.

Suppose I belonged to a weird religion that involves eating raw meat. Nobody is going to stop me from eating rotten bacon at home, but if I open a restaurant violating health codes, of course it's going to get shut down. Is the government FORCING me to do something against my beliefs? Not exactly. If my religious practices don't jive with laws about running a business, then I shouldn't open that business.

BTW discriminating against people is not the same as disagreeing or disapproving of them. You can serve gays and hate them to your cold heart's content.
Well what you're pointing out is already the outrageous overstep government has already made. That's why our population is so stupid. They don't even have to figure anything out for themselves, because they got good old uncle sam telling them what they need and should do.

For religious people, serving gays would be like me telling you that you are going to serve known child molesters. If you're cool with being forced to do that, then fine. But that's not freedom. Freedom is the ability to make a choice and to take the choice away from a business owner is taking their freedom.

If people weren't so cuddled then they'd know better than to go to there to eat rotten bacon. You literally act like people need to be held like babies. We've survived without these rules. I don't think all the sudden there would be a run on the rotten bacon department that killed everybody and put the human race to extinction.