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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. 

I take it you never heard of a thing called the Constitution or the Supreme Court?

It is long held US Supreme Court precedent to protect the rights of the minority from the majority. Religious freedom is usurped by that. Any intro level government class at a high school/community college/university will teach you this.