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reggin_bolas said:
Normchacho said:

That's your bar for injustice? Jesus.

In all seriousness though, the law is discriminatory. It really doesn't take any real ties to the LGBT community to see it either.

You can't completely advance gay rights while simultaneously preserving the inveterate practices and beliefs of various Christian groups. They have an inverse-relationship. Considering that less than 4 percent of the entire US population is affected by this law, I'd say it's fair and reasonable to side with religious freedom. There are more Christian practioneers in the the US than there are gays and lesbians. The greater good determines the winner here. 

How is it discrimminatory? Now government officials are finally allowed to object to an act they consider incongruent with their long-held beliefs and values. It's a major victory for religious freedom, something on which the US was principally founded. This law does not prohibit gays from marrying. It's just they can't force people to violate their spiritual beliefs anymore. 

 

now i can tell you that i know with certainty that there's an agenda to completely wipe chrisitianity off the face of the earth... i have done the research and know this for a fact

 

but, you have to understand that if you want to be free to practice your religious doctrine... you must also allow others to be free to live their lives in whatever way they see fit

 

...the minute you start persecuting people and pushing to take away their freedoms, you have also by extension created the environment where your own freedoms can be taken away

 

what you should be advocating for is freedom for all above all else because it is only in such an environment that your own freedoms can be preserved

 

that being said the whole transgender thing is a complex issue and i do think that in some ways necessary boundaries are being broken down that could lead to chaos

 

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/03/07/living/feat-planet-fitness-transgender-member/