[SeekAndFind]

The author then uses the same schtick that “Christian” homosexuals use:

“They claim to be Christians, yet Jesus never once condemned homosexuality, and discrimination is not a Christian value. Ashers’ religious justifications are, to my mind, theologically unsound.”

[Cheerio]

a day late and a dollar short

[skeeter]

I getting sick of this ‘I’m _____, and here’s why’. Sounds too much like the cabana boy.

[Hostage]

He was confused before, he’s just as confused now. How is it he’s allowed to be elevated to proliferate his confusion in the media? I know the answer.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

While I guess I appreciate the fact that a gay activist is against forcing Christian bakers to bake cakes with gay messages on them, no matter how self-righteous he is in his argument, the irony is that his argument is completely wrong.

Someone who asks for a cake that says “I hate gays” or “I’m against gay marriage”, or who asks a Jewish baker to bake a cake with a swastika on it, or who asks a Muslim baker to bake a cake with a picture of Muhammad on it, is not engaging in a protected status activity. Nazis and people who want a cake with a picture of Muhammad and people who are against gay marriage aren’t protected status under the law. Gays are. And a baker is engaged in commerce, which is not protected speech. So if, in the ordinary course of your business, you bake a cake for a normal wedding and you put slogans on it, then you have to agree to put all slogans on cakes. The alternative is to have a policy of not putting any slogans on cakes.

I’m not saying any of this to make an argument for these Star Chamber witch hunts of Christian bakers. I’d rather see the whole “protected status” BS be shut down all together. But the logic in his article doesn’t hold up.

[Objective Scrutator]

I’m surprised this article was published in the Guardian. Like everything else in that trash rag, the article is still dreck, but it goes against the fundamential Leftist tenet that Christians who are minding their own business need to be executed.

[Josa]

4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female,

5 And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh?

6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Matthew 19:4-6

[Tennessee Nana]

Hmmmmmmmmmm

so there were words on that cake...

it wasn’t the cake it was the words...

that’s not discrimination at all...

unless the homosexuals can prove that the bakers iced a cake with opposite words...

[CincyRichieRich]

Perhaps he couldn’t fight the influence of the letters, “atch” in his last name.

[I want the USA back]

Suppose the bakers refused to bake a cake with nazi slogans? would there be a discussion at all?
Obviously this is being used to silence dissent by normal people against PC dogma.

[Cobra64]

Just curious, are you gay?

[Scirparius]

Jesus never condemned bestiality, either. Or pedophilia. Or the 1970s Oakland Raiders.

Does that mean Jesus was a fan of the 1970s Oakland Raiders and all Christians should wear black and silver to church?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Now, two days before the case goes to appeal, I have changed my mind. Much as I wish to defend the gay community, I also want to defend freedom of conscience, expression and religion.

[MeganC]

If anyone ever demands that I make them a gay quilt then I hope they don’t mind if I drape it over their casket.

[morphing libertarian]

Is a gay cake when two cakes of the same flavor mix together?

[El Cid]

I profoundly disagree with Ashers' opposition to same-sex love and marriage, and support protests against them. They claim to be Christians, yet Jesus never once condemned homosexuality, and discrimination is not a Christian value. Ashers' religious justifications are, to my mind, theologically unsound. Nevertheless, on reflection the court was wrong to penalise Ashers and I was wrong to endorse its decision.

I don't think this fellow claims to be a Christian - just a pro-Sodomite. So it is not surprising that he has not read the Bible and just parrots catch phrases he has heard from others. Someone with a nodding acquaintance with the Bible would understand that the Lord Jesus Christ is the Word made flesh, and His Will and works were in complete agreement with God the Father as well as God the Holy Spirit. And as God makes it clear in the Old and New Testaments (Leviticus 18, the Sodom and Gomorrah dust up, 1 Corinthians 6, etc) - Homosexuality is a sin. And, although merciful (as is God the Father and God the Holy Ghost), our Lord Jesus is clear - go and sin no more. We may stumble, but if sin is a lifestyle - it will lead one to hell.

But I give the writer credit for recognizing that he was wrong for originally supporting that the Ashers' should be forced to participate in an event that is an abomination to their beliefs.

[Steve_Seattle]

"They claim to be Christians, yet Jesus never once condemned homosexuality, and discrimination is not a Christian value."

Jesus did not explicitly condemn homosexuality, rape, or many other specific sins, but he explicitly upheld the Jewish law, which DID condemn homosexuality.

As for "discrimination," it is clear from the New Testament and other early Christian writings that the early church DID have a strict set of moral standards, and that those who repeatedly and defiantly violated those standards would be excluded from the community.

[Boogieman]

You vill bake ze cake und you vill like it!!!!

[fwdude]

Just wait ‘til the Gaystapo is through with this guy’s “re-education.”

[Albion Wilde]

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