[Newsbot]

Title: Mississippi governor signs law allowing service denial to gay couples
Category: Political
Posted By: andyt
Date: 2016-04-05 16:54:56

[andyt]

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The U.S. business community has been pushing back against such legislation.

On Tuesday, PayPal Holdings cancelled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, N.C., and invest $3.6 million US in the area over its new law.

In a letter dated March 29, founders and chief executives of more than 100 companies, including Apple, Twitter and Alphabet urged North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory to repeal the legislation.

[Strutz]

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Bryant, a Republican, said in a statement he signed the law "to protect sincerely held religious beliefs and moral convictions of individuals, organizations and private associations from discriminatory action by state government."

Since no religion is specified I assume this would apply to any religion?

[N_Fiddledog]

Muslims are already protected by the law of Political Correctness.

It's Christians who have been losing their businesses to social justice crybullies.

[xerxes]

[herbie]

Gotta protect the right to discriminate

[Lemmy]

Fortunately your Supreme Court aren't the knuckle-draggers your southern politicians are.

[BartSimpson]

The law does not allow anyone to deny service to gay couples. It allows people to refuse to perform services that offend their religious sensibilities.

Gay people still have the same right to the same services as anyone else. They can still buy donuts and cakes from a Christian bakery but they don't have the right to force a Christian bakery to bake a gay wedding cake, they can't force a Christian photographer to shoot a gay wedding, and etc.

Which is as it should be.

[Lemmy]

It doesn't matter what the law allows because the law will be struck down by your Supreme Court. If you're in business to sell custom-decorated cakes, you'll decorate it any damn way the customer requests it. Otherwise, don't go into the cake decorating business. That's the way it should be and that's the way your Supreme Court will tell them it will be.

The unfortunate part is that you have so many shit-disturbers in the US South acting like kindergarten children that it requires your Supreme Court to be a kindergarten teacher sometimes.

[andyt]

Lemmy Lemmy:

It doesn't matter what the law allows because the law will be struck down by your Supreme Court. If you're in business to sell custom-decorated cakes, you'll decorate it any damn way the customer requests it. Otherwise, don't go into the cake decorating business. That's the way it should be and that's the way your Supreme Court will tell them it will be.

The unfortunate part is that you have so many shit-disturbers in the US South acting like kindergarten children that it requires your Supreme Court to be a kindergarten teacher sometimes.

While I'm not sympathetic to this law, what about a Jewish bakery being asked to decorate a cake with swastikas?

[Brenda]

Swastika is Sanskrit and means 'well-being', until Hitler took it for his own gain. We should get the original meaning back and not give that asshole the power anymore.

[andyt]

Brenda Brenda:

Swastika is Sanskrit and means 'well-being', until Hitler took it for his own gain. We should get the original meaning back and not give that asshole the power anymore.

You tell the Jews that, and good luck. We've had huge outrages about Chinese establishments featuring swastikas. It's one of those symbols that seems doomed for ever to be associated with evil.

[BartSimpson]

Lemmy Lemmy:

If you're in business to sell custom-decorated cakes, you'll decorate it any damn way the customer requests it.

[Freakinoldguy]

andyt andyt:

Lemmy Lemmy:

It doesn't matter what the law allows because the law will be struck down by your Supreme Court. If you're in business to sell custom-decorated cakes, you'll decorate it any damn way the customer requests it. Otherwise, don't go into the cake decorating business. That's the way it should be and that's the way your Supreme Court will tell them it will be.

The unfortunate part is that you have so many shit-disturbers in the US South acting like kindergarten children that it requires your Supreme Court to be a kindergarten teacher sometimes.

While I'm not sympathetic to this law, what about a Jewish bakery being asked to decorate a cake with swastikas?

Good point.

Nobody and I mean nobody should have the right to force their beliefs or morals on anyone else and that includes gays, religious nuts or SJW's because, real tolerance isn't group specific.

[BartSimpson]

Brenda Brenda:

Swastika is Sanskrit and means 'well-being', until Hitler took it for his own gain. We should get the original meaning back and not give that asshole the power anymore.

Lots of cultures and companies use swastikas. Native Americans use it as a symbol of blessing and a few activist Jews have been slapped down in Federal court for trying to force the natives to remove the symbols from tribal properties.

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