Wonktonodi said:
not everyone has such ease of mibility to just pick up and move should they be made uncomefortable, felt unwelcome or be flat out descriminated against. Laws like this make it so that comunities can make individuals feel unwelcome. When businesses serve everyone people don't feel unwelcome. When the homo verboten signs start to show up it will change it quite a bit. Your example of places should show you that not all people are able to leave when its dangerous. you are also starting to compare gereral danger to being discriminated agaist for being who you are. Race, is where much of the history of these laws can be seen. What people are cababple of when groupthink sets in and it beomes ok for a majority to desciminate/ harass and persecute a minoirty. Also many myself included would consider homosexuality closer to race than to religion since its how people are. Why should they deny homesexuals? where in their religion does it say to do such a thing? If they are taking a part that is mostly abandoned that mentions homosexuality to be a sin, yet not denying buisness to other sinners how is that being religeous? and actually no, they don't have equal rights, religion is protected under the constitution and in the state of Indiana, beign gay not so much. The law allows people of a religion to desciminate. It doesn't sunnedly make it legal to descriminate against them actually. Businesnness have to follow the law because they became legal entinies under the law there are so many laws that they have to follow it's not even funny. |
I can see how someone might tie in race into this but it's not about that or related to it. Those are very different from eachother. Before I say anymore, I'm completely neutral in this. I'm trying to see it as logically as possible. To me this is not a matter of right and wrong or what's politically correct.
Christianity and other religions think of homosexuality as a choice or a way of life. To them, it's a sinful lifestyle. Christians when confronted by sin or surrounded by it, will try to isolate themselves and their family from it. Hence why they want to isolate themselves from homosexuals or any other sinful people as much as possible. They simply see that lifestyle as sinful and that they should denouce it to get on the "right" path with god.
As long as homosexuality is viewed as sin by christianity, there's no wiggle room or common ground with 'em. It's better to let them isolate themselves until they change their mind. You can't forcibly change their mind with laws or social pressure. It has to be done gradually. That's why I mentioned just relocating to a friendlier place or really just avoiding them. It's logical for most people to move from a dangerous place or community. In my opinion, it's just as logical to move from a community that doesn't want you there especially if it's the majority of 'em. I want to live in a positive environment.
In this particular case, homosexuals should avoid the businesses that don't want them inside their businesses. That doesn't mean they should move just because of that.
