Featured Oklahoma GOP Lawmaker: ‘Gays Don’t Have a Right to Eat Anywhere They Want’

I think they should all come to your house!

 

No you don't. You are just starting this thread because you cannot stand Obama being exposed for the liar and racist that he is on this board.

 

What does this thread have to do with Obama? You've obviously got some anger issues with this Obama.

Lay it at the foot of the Cross.:thumbsup:

 

Not really. If someone thinks they know the reason then they can file a complaint. In most states, the gov't will come and force an answer during their inquiry.

Mostly. But some come to display their lifestyles. We might agree that a business has a "right" to ask patrons not to witness to other patrons. That right applies just as well to demonstrations of "gay pride" or whatever.

 

How is it codifying discrimination to allow business owners to freely decide what is and is not acceptable on their property? The attempt to "codify" are on the other side in PROHIBITING people from acting on their sincerely held beliefs.

Businesses remove drunks all the time.

Businesses are unlikely to solicit personal information about patrons who do not make some sort of demonstration.

Indeed. It isn't what they do or don't do in their homes. It is the RIGHT of others to disagree and refuse association that's in question. A restaurant owner has no right to get gov't to pass an ordinance prohibiting any restaurant from serving homosexuals. Likewise homosexuals have no right to get gov't to pass an ordinance IMPOSING them on businesses that do not want to serve them because of their CHOICE of lifestyle.

The shame should be from those who would strip others of their rights in the name of "tolerance".

 

This is an abuse of the Constitution that has no root in the ideals of the men who wrote the Constitution.

Federal law with REAL support from the USC also prohibits any gov't law from inhibiting the free practice of religion and guarantees freedom of association along with property rights. In a sane society, we would seek solutions where no one's ox had to be gored.

There are REAL attempts to suppress religious rights and to force acceptance of homosexuality as a legitimate moral alternative on everyone. That is what these laws are about. The evidence is EXTREMELY lean suggesting that homosexuals are subject to pervasive discrimination. But that isn't good enough. They want others to be FORCED to "accept" them... all in the name of "tolerance" of course.

 

But why shouldn't others be able to say "because it violates my religious beliefs"?

FTR, what you suggest will not work in places like Washington state where investigators will be sent to get "answers".

Why shouldn't gays be expected to show "tolerance" for those who disagree with them?

 

So you would effectively lie?

 

"Because I didn't want to bake a cake." Asked and answered.

 

No. If I say I didn't want to bake a cake that means I didn't want to bake a cake. If someone continues questioning with, "why didn't you want to bake a cake?", I reply, "I just didn't feel like it."

This could go on all day until I wore out the questioner.

 

:thumbsup: Exactly. There's no need for specifics other than I'm tired and I don't feel like doing it. Find someone else.

They can ask "Is it because I'm gay?" and my response will still be "It's because I don't feel like it".

You can't make me feel like doing something I don't want to do.

 

Sometimes homosexual couples like to flaunt it, liplocking in pubnlic purely for the shock effect.

 

Then you have a reasonable motivation for removing them from your restaurant.

 

Really, show us those arguments from then.

 

Treat them the same way you treat the straight customers. No PDA in the restaurant.

 

My sentiments exactly.