Discussion: Tony Perkins: We Support Pence's Religious Freedom Clarification

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No no no no no no no!!! We don’t want him!

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Wow, imagine that.

/sarcasm

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Of course he does, why would they spend all that money getting the religious right elected if they weren’t going take their bows for the resultant bigotry?

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If these religious freaks’ tender feefees are hurt because they have to bake a cake or make a floral arrangement for gay people, maybe they shouldn’t be in the commercial sphere to begin with. Let them sell little religious trinkets at the side of the road and stay out of the modern world.

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NPR loves the Family Research Council. For the longest time, they interviewed them whenever a gay marriage story appeared.

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“RFRAs are not intended to nor have they ever been meant to do what they say. They are just meant to piece off the religious nuts who support or vote for us…What do you mean the mike is hot? What does that mean?”

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What flipping planet do these people live on?

It must be delightful to live in world where you are so prosperous that you can select your customers beyond the transactional requirement, “Can you pay me for this right now?” and add extravagant qualifiers to applicants beyond “Are you awesome at this job I need filled, and do you bathe periodically?”

Theirs is a lush land of ease and plenty, I reckon.

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Wonder what Tony would say if a baker in Alaska refused to bake the non-virgin Barstool Palin a wedding cake?

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It’s called ‘Jesusland.’

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Here in Houston, we call the campus of Second Baptist Church “Six Flags Over Jesus”

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“Christians would never deny people these services…”

And what about purported Christians?

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When you invite some of the biggest homophobes to your signing ceremony and you boast about making sure everyone knows how firmly you’re against gay marriage prior to the signing… you know Tony Fucking Perkins isn’t far behind adding his two cents worth of bigotry into the mix.

The Family Research Council should just change their name already to Homophobes United Incorporated.

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I want to put an inscription on a cake, “There’s a law against having relationships with Dead People,” and donate it to a church. But I’m afraid I’ll get stoned…and not in the fun way.

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That’s what I used to call Jim Bakker’s amusement park in the 80s.

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“We must ensure that religious business owners are not forced by the
government to participate in a same-sex ceremony,” Perkins said. “What
RFRA is intended to do is to protect people from government
discrimination.”

But they are not being forced by the government to participate. Baking a fucking cake, for example, for a gay wedding is not in any rational person’s mind an explicit endorsement or an embracing of “the gay agenda.” It’s just a fucking cake!!! It’s not anything like requiring say, homophobic straight people, to ATTEND a gay wedding or requiring religious denominations to perform said weddings against their will. If a Hasidim business owner want to close his deli from Friday afternoon through Saturday evening - fine that’s a religious observance. But such a one should not be able to discriminate against those outside his faith when he’s open for business. Neither should he be forced to serve non-kosher food at a Gay wedding. That’s a religious observance. But he should not refuse to cater kosher food at a gay wedding because that’s not a religious observance; that’s just bigotry.

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Hey, don’t be sticking Tony on my side of the fence. I’d rather have sex with a platypus, and at least a platypus would respect me and give me carfare home.

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We are on the same team. Too many rumors about Toni in Baton Rouge and New Orleans