How to Determine If Your Religious Liberty Is Being Threatened in Just 10 Quick Questions
For those who think their religious liberty is being threatened... check your premises. ;)
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Have you stopped beating your wife?
[A] for yes, or
[B] for no.
actually, I thought this quiz was kind of vague. I didn't want to choose any of the "a"s either
I think businesses should be free to associate. I think that a business who would deny service based on someone's sexuality-which is beyond me how they would know in just providing their product or service-I mean, how does it come up? deserves to lose business and create opportunities for other businesses to thrive.
Regarding forcing them to serve gay people, it's hard to imagine that turning out well for anyone. I don't want to have anything to do with bigots, and they don't want me either probably. Why force us together?
and your last statements are logic Maph refuses to address. He chooses force instead
My notion of treating everyone fairly does start with an axiom that comes from an emotion, but I proceed logically without emotion from that axiom.
My idea of environmentalism is not even founded on emotion. We can calculate the cost of a certain type of pollution by looking at rent prices in areas that are similar except for the the level of pollution. We can calculate the cost of medicine to treat problems shown to be caused by pollution. We can look at the costs of keeping the water out of low-lying urban areas like New Orleans or Rotterdam and project how much sea level changes would cost other coastal areas. We can look at those future cost estimates, and use the time value of money equation to work out the present value cost of emission. Then we tax people that cost, instead of taxing an activity we want such as working. If emitting that pollutant creates a product that creates billions of dollars of value, they can still do it and pay the tax. Otherwise they need to find ways to reduce emissions to avoid pushing their costs on other people in acts of unintentional vandalism.
I consider it to be an inalienable right of every individual to be free from persecution, whether at the hands of government or businesses, and therefore government is entirely justified in protecting that right, just as much as it is justified in protecting the rights to life and liberty.
I haven't mentioned this, but I actually hold the Civil Rights Act of 1964 in very nearly the same degree of reverence as many people hold the Constitution itself. To me, these two documents are like twin pillars of freedom, established to ensure the defense of every individual's right to justice and equality under the law. And if either one of them is attacked, I will defend them with all the ferocity of the most fervent patriot.
I'm not aware of what life was like in '64, but in my world I cannot imagine such a law changing anyone's mind.
My father said people called him wop in the late 50s, which is something I cannot imagine today. I can't imagine the Civil Rights Act helped bring the positive change.
I agree with you on following the law. A law can be changed easier than the Constitution. I would be fine with this law going away.
I sold my property and moved away. there was much strife in doing so. I would never have even thought a law-force- would have changed their (some stupid ignorants) minds. btw-those people in my cul de sac who were so mean? progressives. I had not had ONE political discussion with any of them. The women were pure evil. no shit. their husbands- back door supportive and open arms
and they were always telling other homeowners, what fence, what color, no fence, too high fence, etc