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Kansas set to pass one of the most anti gay laws in America
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Just give Bugs Bunny a much bigger saw...
Brian Griffin
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Hateful and bigoted politicians who want to be re-elected by hateful and bigoted christians.
DXB-KNIGHT
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Totally agree.
Yes and this will pass because its Kansas, and immediately every gay and lesbian person in Kansas will become a persecuted people by the government. They say people have "the right" to use religious freedom to deny service, so what's to stop dozens of businesses putting up signs saying "No gays allowed due to religious reasons?"
this is good
Well, nothing. And nothing will stop what will happen to the poor idiots who decide to publicly announce to the internet that gays aren't allowed at their businesses. Much like the cake idiots, they just don't get how isolated this stance is. And how thorough a lot of people can be.
Sexuality isn't a protected class in most states. In most states you can already do that.
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a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Oooh man. Would the rest of America actually care if these states seceded?
It's really unfair to the rest of you that your backwards parts get away with shit like this.
Wasn't Dorothy all about rainbows? What the hell Kansas!
It's really unfair to the rest of you that your backwards parts get away with shit like this.
Wasn't Dorothy all about rainbows? What the hell Kansas!
speculawyer
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You know . . . this is largely a sad and pointless law.
If some establishment doesn't want to serve gay people then why do you want to support them anyway? As long as the number of establishments that are bigots is small, this kind of issue can be dealt with using social pressures. But at the time of the civil rights act, there were so many public accommodations establishments that would refuse service to black people that they couldn't even take a car trip without sleeping in their cars and not being able to eat at roadside diners.
If some establishment doesn't want to serve gay people then why do you want to support them anyway? As long as the number of establishments that are bigots is small, this kind of issue can be dealt with using social pressures. But at the time of the civil rights act, there were so many public accommodations establishments that would refuse service to black people that they couldn't even take a car trip without sleeping in their cars and not being able to eat at roadside diners.
EatinOlives
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This legislation is simply confusing. Everyone involved in passing this knows it'll get immediately shot down in any higher court. Why would they even begin to put in the ridiculous amount of effort undoubtedly required to pass it in the first place?
You ask this on a message board, which is a prime example of people investing ridiculous amounts of effort arguing that amounts to nothing?
Symbolic Gesture.
I don't see the problem. It is, as you point out, a very honest analogy.
How so? Puritans came over so they could discriminate against others, not to avoid it themselves.
Seems the spirit of those hateful scum is still alive.
Got to fight the good fight to make sure you get the bigot vote next election
Brian Griffin
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Votes.
SteveWinwood
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People have said this every ten years for the last 200 about the US. We'll be fine.
Clever
It's being pushed by a party that's usually pretty concerned with "wasteful government spending" too.
What's more wasteful than blowing tons of money holding sessions and votes for laws that you know will be struck down?
TheBaldEmperor
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I don't understand how people who claim to follow a loving savior can be so hateful and unkind.
my posts in sonic and fedora threads are pretty oppressive. But they are free to the taxpayers.
Fortunately, changing demographics are helping us make sure that won't happen and they are on the non-hateful side.
AnathemicOne
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If the liberal-majority California couldn't pass an anti-gay Proposition what in the hell makes Kansas think it can pull it off? The idiocy is amazing.
Funny you should mention Uganda! My aunt and uncle have lived in Eastern Kansas for decades. They were Sunday Protestants, and liked their local megachurch. But as time went on it became more and more reactionary, and the preacher began to say blatantly homophobic shit in the sermons. Eventually it was kicked out of the local Protestant parish for its extremism and ended up affiliating itself with the Church of Uganda. Needless to say, my aunt and uncle don't go to church anymore.
SteveWinwood
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They did pass it.
metalslimer
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How does this make any sense?!
EatinOlives
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At least we're not actively pushing an agenda of oppression toward a discriminated minority.
Honestly, this is pretty bad as far as internet-forum-false-equivalencies go.
To Far Away Times
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Separate, but not equal.
This is outright bigotry.
This is outright bigotry.
You missed the point, which was just to say that people are willing to invest huge amounts of time and energy and passion into things that objectively won't achieve anything. People just can't help themselves in raging about things they hate.
It's not a comparison about the specific goals, it's a commentary about how people regard their beliefs and how much impact they have.
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I love when people act like the Free Exercise clause is grounds to allow discrimination against a hated group, even though that's never been how its read.
There are, in fact, plenty of religions that would love to have free reign do all sorts of things that are illegal, e.g. polygamy, ritual sacrifice, etc.
There are, in fact, plenty of religions that would love to have free reign do all sorts of things that are illegal, e.g. polygamy, ritual sacrifice, etc.
The ironic part is that you don't even have to make up another religion to show how stupid this is. Just use teachings from the bible to refuse service to other Christians with sins such as wearing mixed fabrics or working on the Sabbath ("Nope, I can't serve NFL players"). You can even get personal by always asking about whether they have ever been in a divorce.
Pretty much. This is why the law will never pass and even if it did it would be shot down so quickly by the higher courts it'd make Kansas republicans heads spin.
soundscream
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Time for the sequel.
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