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To: NYer
"This view, however, fails to take into account the cost to society and the hurt caused to persons who are denied service simply because of who they are.”

Even with racial prejudice and discrimination -- the market will be the most moral deciding factor of the "hurt caused." Let my local grocery store discriminate against black folks, and watch me go shop somewhere else, and that grocery store be hounded out of business by moral people. That's the approach my grandfather took when racial discrimination in business was legal, back in the 1920s and 1930s. It worked. Such discrimination is held in contempt by right people.

This baker is behaving in a perfectly moral way -- peacefully, civilly discriminating against behavior that he thinks is wrong. The gay folks could go find another bakery.

You pays your money and you takes your chances; the judge pointedly ignores the truth that discriminating against open homosexuality is very different from discriminating purely by race. In any case, we risk bad moral behavior on the part of inevitable assclowns as the price of freedom, and hope that good overcomes bad. In a Christian society, that's what happens. America should be celebrating and embracing its Christian heritage. Loving your neighbor as you love yourself, treating others as you would yourself be treated -- that's a basic Christian tenet and why we live in a slavery-free Western Civilization.

78 posted on 12/11/2013 4:24:31 PM PST by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: Finny
> that's a basic Christian tenet and why we live in a slavery-free Western Civilization.

This judgement is the assertion that slavery [aka involuntary servitude] is endorsed and enforced by the judicial branch.

84 posted on 12/11/2013 4:33:46 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Finny

Come to think of it, I don’t believe that wedding cakes have any writing on them like “Happy Marriage Adam and Steve.”


147 posted on 12/15/2013 5:53:59 PM PST by cradle of freedom
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