Thursday, May 01, 2014

Twisted Logic

The stickers are produced by Equality Mississippi
If you agree not to discriminate against anyone you are discriminating. Hun?

Yup, that is the crazy logic of the American Family Association, that is what Pink News is reporting,
The American Family Association has claimed that by pledging not to discriminate against their customers, Mississippi businesses are ‘bullying’ Christians.
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AFA spokesman Buddy Smith said: “If you do that, you are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience.

“It’s not really a buying campaign, but it’s a bully campaign, and it’s being carried out by radical homosexual activists who intend to trample the freedom of Christians to live according to the dictates of scripture.
Talk about screwy logic. I can’t even begin to fathom how they came up with that logic… so by selling to anyone who walks through the door you are discriminating against Christians because you are selling to LGBT people. It sounds like a Monty Python skit.

All this is because on July 1st the ‘Religious Freedom’ law goes into effect; the law allows people to discriminate against LGBT people if it is against their religious beliefs.

The Jackson Free Press had this to say about the law,
The logic behind SB 2681—Mississippi's so-called "religious freedom" bill—might almost work on some level if the people behind it were fixated on promiscuity. It hurts my brain, as well as my heart, to watch so-called religious people go after gays and lesbians who want to get married, settle down and raise children. It would at least make sense if these reformers were focused on people sneaking around and doing it in bar bathrooms (including heterosexuals). I still would not agree that government should be the morality police, but at least it would make a lick of sense.
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Then, come to find out, they were quietly trying to foist an innocently named "Religious Freedom Restoration Act" on Mississippi—one that could allow businesses and others to discriminate against people they believe are "sinful," whether by being openly gay or by seeking an abortion, or even using their hard-earned health insurance to buy birth-control pills, which remarkably are a target for these people in the year 2014.

Caught red-handed, the old-time preachers had to tone down the language of their bill a bit, but they still managed to get it passed, and with language so confusing that it's hard to know just how it will be used after it goes into effect July 1. (But considering that Gov. Phil Bryant invited Family Research Council President Tony Perkins, an ultra-conservative fixated on abortion and gays, down from Washington, D.C., for the private signing, we can imagine how.)
Just wait until the first white supremist refuses to serve a person-of-color and uses the law to justify their discrimination.

1 comment:

  1. Or when they refuse to serve the adulterers. More about that in the bible than homosexuality.

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