March 31, 2015
It is particularly
amazing and profound to me that some business owners would take a stance that
they have here in the USA the last few weeks. They've decided that they will
not provide services to persons that are gay, lesbian, or of transgender
posture. Their reason for this practice is that the act of being gay is against
the teachings of the Christian bible. I see.
To reveal the
source of these "teachings", you have to go back to the early
chapters of the Christian bible and go to the book of Leviticus, the third book
of the Torah (the Jewish part of all Christian bibles).
The following
are excerpts from this book.
"You shall not lie with a male as
with a woman. It is an abomination. (NKJ, Leviticus 18:22)"
"If a man lies with a male as he
lies with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination. They shall
surely be put to death. Their blood shall be upon them. (NKJ, Leviticus 20:13)"
These are taken from a version of the
Christian bible that is translated into understandable texts by some guys with
more degrees than Stephen Hawking. These directives to the believer were
written in an age when a group of men were trying to establish religious
control and dominance over a region. They claimed to be visited by angels and some
even claimed that they were given commandments directly from God. OK, that's
cool. Go ahead and believe that.
But in this day and age, here in the
USA, we live under the cloak of the Constitution of the United States of
America. Particularly, the Bill of
Rights. If you read that document thoroughly, you'll find that the Founding
Fathers were a mixture of men with very different beliefs, backgrounds, and
opinions. However, they all signed a document that supported freedom of speech,
freedom from the establishment of religion, and the right to keep and bear
arms.
Over the last 200 years, these rights
have been tossed about and thousands of laws have been made in the States that
support, twist, outright challenge, or totally ignore these Amendments to our Constitution.
But we're not talking about a law here. We're also not talking about some verse
written in a scroll 3,000 years ago. We're talking about personal preference,
and we're talking about hate. On top of that, we're talking about Man telling
Man what he can and cannot be, or what he can or cannot feel; the very reasons
the Constitution was written in the first place.
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ReplyDeleteI don't know about anyone else, but I was laboring under an erroneous belief. I had thought the bakery owner refused to do a cake for a same sex marriage. Turns out, she refused to do a cake for a preacher who wanted it decorated with anti-homosexual propaganda.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I stand by my premise that a business owner has the right to refuse service to anyone but there may be consequences to doing so. For example, if the above baker was approached by two men wanting to "marry" she is within her right, in my rarely humble opinion, to refuse them if she believes serving them is contrary to her personal philosophy. But when the street in front of her business becomes the site of legally held pro-homo rallies etc, she should not be afforded any more protection than abortion clinics are in the event of pro life demonstrators.