penguins don’t live in the arctic though...

The white power cake is easy: You just say, “Sorry, we don’t make white power cakes at this establishment.” It’s not wrong to not offer a specific product. As for your sister’s abusive ex, you can refuse to serve him because he’s a terrible asshole. If he happens to be, say, Jewish, you can’t say, “I refuse to make…

The law is that you cannot discriminate on the basis of certain categories - sex, race, nation of origin, religion.... But you can refuse service for other reasons. So, you could legally refuse service for your two examples.

What the administration is arguing is that there should be religious exceptions that allow one…

A lot of people are trying to muddy the waters, so some confusion is understandable. It’s very much a “my right to swing my fist ends where your face begins” kind of thing. In this case, “my face” begins with discrimination against groups of people who have been denied access to their civil rights for who they are.

Nope. Not the same thing.

Neo-Nazis aren’t a protected class. (Well, yet. I expect that’s coming soon from this administration.) Neither are abusers. So yeah, you could totally refuse to bake those cakes.

It’s not an issue for them, because Christian’s hold socioeconomic power and they know it.
They can refuse to serve gays and lose maybe 5% of their business (unless it becomes a PR nightmare).
If I started a bakery and refused to serve Christians, I lose 65% of my business, making it nearly impossible to stay in…

cocks and rainbows

Thus the entire concept of protected class when it comes to discrimination law suits.

You choose to be neo-nazi. You don’t choose to be gay. Once people realize this, we can stop entertaining these false equivalencies and religious freedom arguments. A better analogy would be, what if I start a religion that being black is a sin. Can I stop serving black people? Uhm, no.

There is a part of me that wants to make a point by opening up a bakery that refuses to serve ANYONE who is in violation of ANY Biblical edict.

Yeah, let’s be honest, she’s at minimum Third Daughter.

Indeed. But lots of opportunity there, too.

Agreed. Kristina kept holding on after he told he he was going to go after D.Lo, then he only apologized because he found out he couldn’t keep his fuckboi-ness hidden. She lashed out at Raven when she told her the truth. Poor thing got her heart broken.

My calling and my vocation has led me to speak out against violence and oppression in any form, and I want to especially challenge white Christians in America to take seriously the deadly legacy of slavery in our country and commit ourselves to follow Jesus into a time of deep reflection, repentance and…

Seems to me like if you are talking about firing the pastor because of “unwanted media attention” for him doing and saying something undeniably positive, the issue is not about the attention, it’s about the content of his actions and words, which you don’t see as positive at all.

I reject the bog standard average the majority of Christians I’ve encountered in my life hold themselves to and I’m praising Rob for being outspoken in upholding the true good tenants of the faith. I have other reasons for rejecting the religion but I will always praise someone who actually follows the teachings of…

When I saw his speech, I thought, wow, what a pleasant surprise to see evangelical Christians who aren’t white supremacists and racists! What a great congregation he must. Haha, NOPE.

Another piece of evidence that American Christianity is perverted, inaccurate form of the Christian religion. Throw it on the pile with the others.