“Christians backing this bill are essentially arguing for homosexual Jim Crow laws.” So asserts Kirsten Powers in today’s USA Today. What could justify such an assertion? Nothing. Powers is wrong about the law.
The bill in question is a religious-liberty protection being debated in the Kansas legislature. The bill would protect all citizens from being forced by the government into recognizing or celebrating a same-sex marriage if it ran contrary to their religious beliefs. So how is a bill protecting liberty akin to Jim Crow?
Powers isn’t alone. Slate ran a piece with the headline “Kansas’s Anti-Gay Segregation Bill Is an Abomination.” But the Kansas bill and similar bills that protect liberty are about preventing the kind of coercion that happened under Jim Crow. They protect what should be already protected: basic civil liberties such as freedom of association, freedom of contract, and freedom of religion.
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10 comments:
My bible says "NO" to gays!
2:35 It also says you can't eat shellfish (crabs, shrimp), no piercings of any kind, and no body markings (tattoos). Hope you follow those rules, as well.
3:48
How do you justify using things from the bible when you obviously don't believe in it? Read a little further and maybe you will gain some truth.
"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."
(Leviticus 20:13)
The bible might say no to gays, but these are businesses open to the public. That should mean open to all.
Equating homosexual rights with black civil rights is bizarre. How is giving someone of another race his civil rights the same as giving a pervert the right to practice disgusting and disease spreading behaviour that is against nature itself?
Anonymous said...
2:35 It also says you can't eat shellfish (crabs, shrimp), no piercings of any kind, and no body markings (tattoos). Hope you follow those rules, as well.
February 21, 2014 at 3:48 PM
You pansy homo! Is that you Chuck Cook!
"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman. It is an abomination." (Leviticus 18:22) said...
"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."
(Leviticus 20:13)
February 21, 2014 at 5:03 PM
That's no problem. When Sharia Law comes her they will be put to death.
Anonymous said...
Equating homosexual rights with black civil rights is bizarre. How is giving someone of another race his civil rights the same as giving a pervert the right to practice disgusting and disease spreading behaviour that is against nature itself?
February 21, 2014 at 8:50 PM
I have always said this. Discriminating based on skin color isn't the same as a pansy homo with a mental illness performing perverted sex acts.
4:06 How do you justify ignoring the scriptures that you don't want, but sticking to the gay one? Hypocrites, and that goes for all religions.
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