re: Mississippi wins right to enforce religious exemptions law

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That isn't freedom, that is discrimination.

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These aren't mutually exclusive ideas.

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The entire civil rights movement was fought to prevent people from discriminating against minorities.

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No, the primary basis of the Civil Rights Movement was to prevent the government from discriminating against minorities

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and if anyone can give an explanation for why "marriage is the union of one man and one woman" that doesn't come down to "because the bible says so", then Id be fascinated to hear it.

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Simply put, where procreation is impossible marriage is irrelevant and not needed.

You see between a man and a women procreation is, in theory, always possible. And it is that possibility, as a matter of law and government that gave rise to the institution of marriage in the first place.

On the other hand when it is impossible - as it is between two males or two females and allow them to be married and call that action a marriage you are saying that marriage can be understood apart from procreation. You have just changed its definition in such a way you destroy the necessity for the institution - Since the only reason it has existed in human societies and civilizations was to regulate from a social point of view the obligations and responsibilities attendant upon procreation.

IMO, When you start playing games in this way you are actually acting as if the institution has no basis independent of your own arbitrary whim.

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quote: and if anyone can give an explanation for why "marriage is the union of one man and one woman" that doesn't come down to "because the bible says so", then Id be fascinated to hear it. Simply put, where procreation is impossible marriage is irrelevant and not needed. You see between a man and a women procreation is, in theory, always possible. And it is that possibility, as a matter of law and government that gave rise to the institution of marriage in the first place. On the other hand when it is impossible - as it is between two males or two females and allow them to be married and call that action a marriage you are saying that marriage can be understood apart from procreation. You have just changed its definition in such a way you destroy the necessity for the institution - Since the only reason it has existed in human societies and civilizations was to regulate from a social point of view the obligations and responsibilities attendant upon procreation. IMO, When you start playing games in this way you are actually acting as if the institution has no basis independent of your own arbitrary whim.

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Where'd you read that?

Legal discrimination happens all the time.

I'm still waiting for my social security check to arrive even though I'm being discriminated against for being too young to receive it. Discrimination by the government, no less!

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If you refuse service to every gay person because they are gay, yeah it's discrimination. 

See civil rights era sit ins. Restaurants wouldn't serve black people so they decided to sit in the restaurant anyway

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Evidently you don't understand this bill. It is only for religious ceremonies. Do you feel a church should be required to perform a marriage to a gay couple if it is against their religion?

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That isn't freedom, that is discrimination

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you are wrong as I have stated multiple times on this claim

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Allowing this insures that certain people are not free.

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again, ridiculously incorrect. That person is free to go SOMEWHERE ELSE for the exact same service/product/business. They are being denied NOTHING

Why do I have to keep typing the same things over and over?

I love how you think just because they can go somewhere else that it changes the definition of discrimination. I didn't say it was illegal discrimination, but it is still textbook discrimination. Learn the meaning of words.

The definition of discrimination doesn't include the words active or passive. Keep making up definitions though.

Antonio - the primary purpose of the Civil Rights movement was to gain public accommodations (Title 2), and employment rights (Title 7).