Hardware Stores Enter Politics, Turning Away Gays, Turning AwayEvangelicals
On 7/4/2015 1:24 PM, taxed and spent wrote:
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or why not just do as the sign says - allow gays that don't try to ram stuff
down everyone's throat.
Two gays buying a cake, or buying roofing paper, or a hammer, are not
violating anyone's freedom of speech or freedom of religion. But the
store owner is entirely within his rights to not sell to gays since
there is no law in Tennessee that forbids that type of discrimination.
But there _are_ laws preventing discrimination based on religion and his
new sign comes close to this type of discrimination. The new sign is
offensive to those people who routinely annoy others, trying to convert
them to their own belief system, like the owner of the store.
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