re: If you force a Christian bakery to bake gay wedding cakes, it'll start a precedent

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So I wonder why so many Christians celebrate the deportation of refugees. Or so many celebrate wealth accumulation when widows and orphans aren’t being taken care of. Or so many celebrate Donald Trump, who is living in an aldulterous relationship.

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Strawman argument, and a particularly bad one at that.

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I don't think liberals know how to win debates anymore.

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They lost the ability when they became so open minded their brains fell out.
Sad.

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A poster said it wasn’t very Christian to celebrate sin, and my point is that Christians do it all the time. Then they accuse others of “not calling a sin a sin.”

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You mean some Christians do it sometimes, don't you? Kind of like some SJWs and gays are bigots? I don't agree with you that they do it "all the time"...but you do you.

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You mean some Christians do it sometimes, don't you? Kind of like some SJWs and gays are bigots? I don't agree with you that they do it "all the time"...but you do you

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My apologies. I thought I might have been dealing with someone capable of understanding nuance within the English language. No, not all Christians do it all the time. It’s a figure of speech, like “oh, it’s no big deal, people go to movies by themselves all the time.” Of course not all people are in movie theatres alone 24 hours a day - that’s ridiculous and not how the English language works. It isn’t at all uncommon for American Christians, particularly Evangelicals, to fetishize homosexuality rather that do the hard work that Jesus called us to do.

And yes, some people who are gay and some people who are SJWs are almost certainly bigots. So what?

Teach me more about the federally protected class that is sexual orientation.


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...the proper Christian response for a baker is to deny a cake for a gay wedding.

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100% wholly irrelevant.

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Some part of a society has to be a neutral zone for it to function properly. For us that's the market place. When you offer something for sale, it needs to be available to everyone who can afford it. Nothing else will work.

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The almighty dollar is almost always more powerful than bigotry. If a gay guy walks in willing to drop a hundred bucks, most homophobes won't say no.

In this day and age, with nearly every resource and amenity capable of being purchased without even leaving your home, laws dictating who one must serve are antiquated and unnecessary in our society. The number of people who would refuse service for such discriminatory reasons, and the sheer number of viable alternatives for consumers, mean nobody will be unable to obtain a service.

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You just keep on spinning. TGT was outperforming WMT, right up until they made that announcement. They havent recovered since

In fact, WMT hit a 5-year low the quarter before TGT made their tranny announcement. And WMT set an all-time high this past quarter. While TGT set a 5-year low within a year of its announcement. With its 5-year high being set the day before the announcement

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I'll make it easy for you.

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Those are the facts. None of it spin. But I'll even let the TGT CEO dispute your spin with his own words

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Oh, really?

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Target (TGT, +0.00%) reported a disappointing set of first-quarter results on Wednesday and warned investors to expect a slight drop in business in the current quarter.

The discount retailer pointed to many factors pinching sales, damp and cool weather in parts of the company and skittish consumers, among them.

But one thing not hitting sales is the purported boycott of Target by many customers offended by the company’s announcement last month that it would allow transgender customers and employees to use the bathroom in its stores that aligns with their identity. That came soon after a controversial law in North Carolina was passed about the use of bathrooms.

The move was met with anger in some quarters: within days, 1 million people had signed a pledge to boycott Target over the policy. But it’s not clear those shoppers actually did stop going, or whether this was just online bluster by a loud minority.

“You’ve heard us talk over the years about our commitment to diversity and inclusion,” Target CEO Brian Cornell told Fortune on a media call on Wednesday morning.

He did allow that just a few stores had some some protests and took a bit of a hit sales wise, but on the whole, the 1,800-store retailer didn’t feel anything.

“To date we have not seen a material or measurable impact on our business. just a handful of stores across the country have seen some activity and have been impacted ,” he added.

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Are there no limitations?

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Non Sequitur.
Simply refusing to a simple act is square 1 in the framework of protected religious expression. No where near any boundary of "limitation"

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Non Sequitur

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Yeah, no. Don’t think you know what that means.