Good thing Susan Collins didn’t vote for a bunch of anti-gay nominees to cabinet and judicial spots. Imagine how embarrassed the HRC would be if it turned out they supported someone who’s votes turned into a Supreme Court that wants to overturn all of the last 50 years of gay rights progress.

It took me a second to register that HRC stood for “Human Rights Campaign” and not “Hillary Rodham Clinton.”

Unions did finally, get the Friday after Thanksgiving off for everyone here - union and non-union alike (because the unions negotiated for that day off, the business woulnd’t really funciton w/o them + it was considered ‘awkward’ for union folks to be all ‘see ya’ to their non-union coworkers). You can be sure where I…

Also glad to see that the union stood up for performance musicians on faculty, who are often the worst treated at universities.

Not to mention, in such situations, unions often *also* negotiate for retroactive application of the COLA to have parity with non-union workers, which comes in a lump sum.

But what about the free market? (Derp)

But remember, it’s anti-American to use the power of numbers to force rich people to abide by market forces!

Or something. I struggle to see how unionizing (i.e. a labor force trying to set an equitable level of compensation for their services in the same way that other participants in the market set prices) is…

Good for them. My sister just got screwed by a school when they basically halved the amount they were willing to pay her to completely redesign a course (as an adjunct). After pointing out that it would take significantly more hours than they were willing to pay, she was told to take it or leave it.

United we stand, divided we fall.

100% bullshit. Even the Family Research Council doesn’t make that claim.

The bakery is not a religious institution. It is a business. They discriminated based on writing words on a cake.

Well, that ends now.

That’s fine, but when you use religious arguments to it, that is when it goes downhill. This mysterious figure says this is wrong, so let’s not do it. How about coming up with a better scientific argument that can be argued?

LGBT isn’t preventing straight people from getting married. But religious conservatives want to prevent gay people from getting married. That’s the diff.

Huh? Are gay people trying to force people to have gay marriages now?

The bakery opened their services to the public thereby requiring themselves to serve their classes. They’re not a protected institution themselves like a church. Rules apply to businesses to stop them from discriminating against classes of people. They can work on a client-by-client basis and pick and choose who they…

If you follow the thread, you’ll see my comment on this matter and how public businesses aren’t being persecuted by being required to serve specific classes of people. As for sexual orientation, the same goes for race. If businesses are allowed to discriminate entire specific classes of people on a whim, they can be…

Let’s see the receipts for those accusations. Sure, public businesses are being sued for discrimination but they are not churches. Non-Church venues that operate in cities/states with anti-discrimination policies are also not allowed to turn people away. There are no churches or it’s clergy being sued for not…

I’ve yet to see a single case (not to say it doesn’t happen, but have yet to see one) that wasn’t a giant case of false persecution. Please provide a case of this happening. I also hope you aren’t including things like bakeries in with this. Opening a door to the public means serving specific classes equally. If…

Let me try to use Jesus’ technique here and respond to your question with a question of my own.