Now you're starting to sound like an idiot again.
I have a little extra time this morning, so I'll spell it out for you though what I'm talking about is clearly indicated in the OP's link (in other words, READ THE DAMNED LINK BEFORE YOU TYPE, VESTA).
In general, civil rights laws protect minorities (like queers, lesbians, blacks, Hispanics, and even white people, as odd as that may sound) from things like housing discrimination, illegal voting processes, bigoted hiring practices, and even infrastructure like facilities (separate restrooms for blacks and whites, for example).
The civil rights law does not stop a proprietor for refusing to serve a prospective customer. Furthermore, that prospective customer is not prohibited from obtaining a wedding cake elsewhere - in this case, the proprietor made it clear that her own principles prohibited her from providing a service to the two rugmunchers. The fact that they're rugmunchers is not an issue -- only the principle involved WITHIN THE PROPRIETOR HERSELF.
Now, I'm not a betting man but I'd wager a small sum that some jackass lawyer is going to take this issue to an Iowa court. This proprietor is going to have to pony up some money for defending her core principles.
THAT is a complete waste of resources, but is merely another mouthpiece for the gay agenda. You refuse to serve somebody? Be prepared to defend your decision in court.
That's almost as much a travesty as your own refusal to look at the facts, do your own homework, and present your own opinon.
Well, it is difficult for me in my age range to even think of gay marriage. Unknown in my time and never spoken of----men who never married in the family were called bachelors and single woman who never married were called Old Maids. No one ever asked questions of these family members----They became sex less beings to the family's. Any question of why an aunt or uncle never married were greeted with a blank stare and the answer was all ways, --They did not want to marry.
Never was there a sexual connection for them, even for the single brothers and sisters that lived together for life. Or sisters and sisters and brothers and brothers, single woman that had a female Friend or a Bachelor with a life long friend, no raised eye brows.
I came up this way learning it best not to ask questions.
I was in my late teens when I first began to learn about Queers, I still was not sure what that meant but as time went on I learned. It was inconceivable to me to think that the same sex would be attractive to each other, it was all about boys, boys, boys, attracting a male for a mate. Getting married, having children, living as our family had done and did.
I look back today and see how protected I was from the other side of life. Darn I was 32 years old when I met an open Gay.
Now as I get old, I see both sides of the story, some very alarming and some all so sad. My generation trying to move on into the next and understand it is difficult.
I still say, if I wish to sell a, say, chair to the public and the public comes to me with money in hand wearing a swatchsticker tattoo on forehead, they have the right to buy the chair, I am there to sell, not to make judgements. I may have to go into the bathroom to throw up after the sale, but who am I to refuse a customer for any reason.--This customer may be an American Indian that uses the sign of the ancients for all I know.
I would hate to have my heart set on a product I can pay for and be refused for color, sex, religion, or the place I live. Seldom do I see anything up for sale with a sign, for Methodists only
. I do remember as a young child signs outside restaurants and bathrooms at the airport of --Whites only.
Others had colored only and I thought that meant the toilets were painted blue or red. So I wandered into a colored bathroom and had some nice Lady's escort me out, I was so disappointed that all the fixtures were the same as in the white only bathroom.
My generation has had to survive remarkable changes in life style, most confuse us, we get that technology shock all the new and different stuff we have to learn to use. Life style is even more shocking then the Micro Wave.
All the dirty hidden secrets we pushed back in our brain is now coming to the fore front. All this stuff we may have thought was going on but refused to believe has now popped out into the open.
Go back to Ben Franklin and his bringing over from France Von Steuben , a man disgraced in his country for his fondness for young boys. Old Ben did not give a hoot about his sex life and knew he could train and make a difference at Valley Forge. This Von Steuben did and helped win the war.
Yes I know I am wandering about as I read and learn things I was never taught. I have learned more about sex in the last 10 years then I did in the last 40 + years just watching the news.
So what do we think should go on the top of a Gay wedding cake???
