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SuperNova on 12 April 2016
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reggin_bolas said:
SuperNova said:

You do realize that being gay or lesbian has absolutely nothing to do with being transgender right?

There are gay and lesbian transgender people of course, the only numbers I could find on it suggest that about 21% of them identify as gay. Incidentally that is the exact same number that identifies as heterosexual.

My point is that the numbers above actually only includes about a fith of transgender (the 21% that identify as homosexual) people and don't accord for the rest of them.

Hence, I'm not quite sure what the point of your post was with regards to this topic, other than to imply that we should deny people human rights and equality based on their minority status.

My point? Greater good prevails: Religious freedom > gay rights. Very few people are actually affected by these laws that dont violate any human rights. No idea why you mentioned human rights. 

What you call 'greater good' is a completely subjective and personal opinion. You choose to not only completely disregard a goup of several million people, but also everyone who doesn't agree with discriminatory laws based on the personal beliefs of a few. State and religion need to remain seperate, otherwise you end up with sharia laws and mandatory religions.

This law specifically exist to cater to a specific group in order to discriminate against another. That is not in favor of religious freedom if the only religion 'benefitting' from this is christianity. It's in favor of christianising the state.

Religios freedom has to end where it harms others. You wouldn't tolerate human sacrifices either with the same excuse that 'it only affects a few people' in defense of religous freedom. (At least I very much hope you wouldn't.) Murder is against the law, so is discrimination, no matter your religion.

 

 

For clarification this is directly from the human rights act:

 

Article 7.

All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

 

This law is a blatant incitement to discrimination aimed against a specific group of people and as such a violation of human rights.