Thanks Indiana for making it perfectly clear that I will never knowingly spend a single cent in your state or for anything affiliated with your state.
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Iâm quite sure the esteemed professor knows that the repeating of a thing in the public sphere creates the Overton Window that allows people like him, and christianists in general, to exist and have their voices and viewpoints heard.
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OMFGâŚKarma is certainly a bitch! Perhaps youâve already seen that Indianaâs hate and homophobic new âreligious freedomâ law has claimed its first victim: MARCUS BACHMANN!! A store owner âassumedâ he was gayâŚand refused him service and asked him to leave!
[ âI didnât think anything was out of the ordinary at first,â said the
59-year old self-described âdevout Christian citizen,â although IÂ donât
usually have men come in by themselves. He was very polite but the more
he spoke, the more I thought he was different.â
Holtz began to suspect that Bachmann was âperhaps a homosexual manâ,
and because it is now within her rights to refuse service based on
religious beliefs, informed Bachmann she would be unable to serve him,
and asked him to leave.
âI was aghast!â said Bachmann. Iâve been shopping for Michele for
years! I had no idea why the woman in the store turned on me like that. I
thought perhaps she had suddenly become ill.â
For many years, Marcus has been choosing Micheleâs outfits without incident. In a Chicago Tribune
article from 2006, Michele recalled an upcoming meeting with then Vice
President Dick Cheney. Marcus decided to outfit Michele in a more
feminine style than the Congresswoman usually chose for herself:
Before Vice President Dick Cheneyâs visit,
Marcus hit the stores â âheâs got a good sense of styleâ â and came home
with âa sleek, simple hourglass dress with a yoke collar in winter
white.â He even bought a matching coat and shoes. âI just slipped it
on,â said Michele.
Marcus reacted with shock when he realized he had fallen victim
to the very measure he had come to Indiana to support. âI was
gobsmacked! I never realized a law meant to protect individualsâ
religious freedoms would be twisted in such a way as to discriminate!
Clearly, people are mis-applying this well-intentioned law.â
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âMarcus is the most rugged individual Iâve ever met,â said former
Congresswoman Bachmann. âThereâs never been a gay bone in his body,â she added.]
While slightly conflicted, I just canât stop laughing! If it had to happen, and it WAS bound to happen, it couldnât have happened to a more appropriate person! bwwaahahahaaaa
[Update: Dang it! Tracked the story to its originâŚand it was the National Report__a satire site (a pale imitation of The Onion). Still it gave me a good giggle! ~It was a good dream!~]
Guess Marcus and Michelle will just have to get along sharing a corndog.
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http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/4e49467fecad04747a000009/michele-bachmann-corndog.jpg
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And I have no doubt they would pass an anti-sharia-law bill (which is, in itself, an absurd notion) without acknowledgement of the slightest bit of irony.
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(EDIT: Slightly rearranged the following to adhere to Sherlock1âs discovery
of the Marcus story to be satire.)
But poor Marcus.
Here he was just minding Micheleâs businessâŚ
Gobsmacked.
Yeah Marcus as are approx 13M LGBT US citizens.
And an untold number of millions who arenât.
OK then.
What are YOU going to do about this Marcus?
Cuzâ apparently (according to you) this IN business-ownerâs gaydar went off-- when it oughtânt.
So just what would you suggest?
Weâll wait. (~taps foot~)
jw1
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Oh shoot! I just tracked down the storyâs originâŚand itâs the National Report___and itâs a satire site! Dang!____Still, it gave me a good laugh!
~It was a good dream!~
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Whenever they came by, Iâd tell them I am a Druid and donât believe their idiotic, bloody fairy tales. Then Iâd get shocked looks and some mumbo-jumbo about how they worry about my soul.
As I close the door, I tell them to worry about their own souls.
They havenât bothered me in at least 10 years.
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No worries!
I retold the story to my better-half (who is apolitical).
She ROTFL.
Honestly? Makes no difference it was satire.
It points out the potential for injustice with clarity-- as it was likely intended.
But yeah. I laughed. Gleefully.
jw1
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I would give my left nut for a chik-fil-a sandwich, but I just cannot do it, even though I know they will never miss the money of my âpersonal choice.â And Iâm an equal opportunity boycotter. I donât spend a dime anywhere that is trying to unilaterally destroy our Constitution. I prefer locally owned/operated businesses. They are unique. (And yes, I realize that most of these franchises are owned by local families. But there was a time when you had to have something special to offer the public. Simply buying a name and formula wasnât enough for guaranteed success.)
Besides, Hobby Lobby sux. In my small hometown we have a craft store thatâs been open since the '40âs probably. You can get, or they will get you, anything you could want or need. We need to support these companies or America is going to become so homogenized that a town in the southeast will be no different than a town in the northwest. A townâs character is built by its citizenry and the businesses they personally built, not by Outbacks, Red Lobsters, Dillards or Wal Marts. My job requires me to travel all over the country - on roads, not in airplanes - and it is sad how every town and city looks and feels more and more the same, and the exception of states like New Mexico are becoming more rare by the day.
The earth of WALL-E is closer than any of us want to believe.
So, yes, our âpersonal choicesâ matter to the USA we will leave for future generations.
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The amazing part of all this is Pence is now scrambling saying heâll clarify as if he didnât know there would be any blowback. Salesforce, Cummins, Eli Lilly and GenCon all issued statements before he signed how this bill would hurt their businesses. Itâs a bad bill period but Pence is breathtakingly tone deaf!
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There was a march today attended by thousands. It isnât going unnoticed.
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I live in Indianapolis. Already many businesses in progressive parts of town have posted signs âWe proudly serve everyoneâ and RFRA crossed out. Iâm excited for the first time Mike Pence and his wife go out to a nice dinner and the restaurant owner refuses to serve him citing âreligious freedom.â That business will immediately get the biggest increase in sales imaginable!!
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Heâs going to try to appease everybody but will serve to muck things up further.
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And really, if this has no effect, why do we have to pay legislators to pass it? Of course they mean it to allow discrimination.
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Exactly, some people just donât think. You avoid businesses that discriminate, not all of Indiana. 46% of the people voted Democrat in the last Gov election. The hatred on here is NO different than the hatred people who crafted the law practice. No different. Itâs hatred of a group with no basis of hating the entire group.
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Yes, thatâs why all this âfuck Indianaâ talk is not only dumb, but itâs the same hate practiced by the people who made the law. Both are ignorant hatred of a group.
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Yes, so boycott that restaurant and others like it. Not the state. Plenty of great people in Indiana, and many are business owners.
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I let them in and when they were done with the sales pitch I asked them when was church. When they said Sunday morning I told them that was a problem. âSee the Coven meets on Saturday nights and after all that frolicking and fornicating in the woods Iâm pretty tired Sunday morning.â
they havenât been back. Itsâ been almost 20 years.
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They are not christians. They are âchristianistsâ - those who claim the mantle of a Christ they wouldnât recognize if he knocked on their front door.
And although the Bible is fraught with hate, rape and war, you will also find the first gay love story. Read First Samuel with that knowledge and there is no argument you could make to me or any non-partisan person that it is not a love story.
And aside from that, the Old Testament is as its name implies - OLD.
As has been said repeatedly: âIf we obeyed âan eye for an eye and a tooth for a toothâ we would be a blind and toothless society.â
And as I always say, âDonât quote Leviticus to me if you havenât slain a sheep today.â
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