I think it’s absolutely necessary to make sure beyond a shadow of a doubt that no wedding cakes or pizzas get made for gay people. Some of them look normal! And what about weirdos, people who look funny or are not from around here, but they’re not queer? What about men who naturally lisp due to dental problems? Or women who just seem mannish? It’s not fair to them to deny pizza because they seem gay, but aren’t.
The only solution is some kind of gay test. Like a lie detector test. If a weirdo comes in for a wedding cake and you’re not sure about him, he should get hooked up to a machine, and you show him pictures of chicks with big tits that normal men would be attracted to. Then you can know for sure if it’s a religious issue or not.
There has got to be a Plan to jimmy the voting machines for 2016. No political party in modern history has gone so far out of its way to be so depraved and repulsive. They are even wildly inconsistent. The “Party-Of-Small-Government” is hellbent on inserting itself, negatively, into every decent aspect of American life.
I would suggest that voter suppression, voter registration difficulty, bogus machines, misleading announcements, even complicity of the MSM (“false equivalency”) and FOX (just plain FALSEhoods) will be on the table as the BaggerParty looks to assure that only Regressives vote.
Yes, but we need to aggressively and publicly push back against these patently unconstitutional laws - whether or not it specifically says LBGT in the text, this law is a direct violation of the equal protection clause.
They need to know just how far outside the mainstream their ideas are - and in Louisiana they will, because tourism and convention business is an even bigger part of the economy than in Indiana.
So what’s to keep people from coming together to form a religion only recognizing white people as people? Or gay people as the chosen people of God? Or allowing to marriage to a commune, or more then one wife or husband?
This shit will not stand a serious legal challenge.
Although the GOP hates science, they have apparently embraced the science of Archeology. Their fascination with ancient history apparently compels them to keep trying to turn back the clock to earlier times, when class warfare and discrimination based upon fears and mythology ruled the world. Let’s all go back to prehistoric times when it was so much simpler.
Roscoe, pass the popcorn. The show is about to begin again, and implosions are such fun to watch.
I remember that great line from Anthony Kennedy in 1996 in Romer v. Evans, which was a monumental case at its time for gay rights. Colorado tried to make it illegal to offer gay folks a protected class status (I’m not a legal scholar, so that’s the best I could come up with), and the Supreme Court struck it down, with Kennedy writing, “This Colorado cannot do.” There is zero chance of this law withstanding even cursory judicial review. Offer health insurance benefits to straight employees but not gay employees? That is truly rich.
One of the unintended side effects of all of these religious freedom laws might be that it gives Roberts, or possibly even Alito, enough cover to say yes to gay marriage. Because look what happens when there’s no protection. These conservative states will throw the gays (of which I am one, by the way) in front of a bus every chance they get.
Agree with all you said, but my take on this was that they could deny insurance coverage to a non-employee gay spouse, which they would otherwise give to a hetero non-employee spouse; not the gay employee. Any way you slice it, it is sick.
I think I am going to have to take some time off from the Internet. I am getting cranky.
Religion should have no defined rights beyond the First Amendment.
It was Mr. James Madison’s clearly stated intent to keep religion as far from government as possible due to its corrupting influence on such governments and its complicity in the royal abuses of Europe.
He considered it to be an enemy of liberty and detrimental to the human mind.
He was right on all counts.
