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re: Catholic couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host same-sex ‘wedding’

Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:21 pm to
Posted by Roger Klarvin
DFW
Member since Nov 2012
46543 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:21 pm to
The laws dictating this are the same ones that would punish them if they refused to allow interracial couples to be married on their land.

That doesn't mean I agree with this, but people need to stop acting like this is some "gay agenda".
Posted by 3nOut
Central Texas, TX
Member since Jan 2013
28996 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:25 pm to
I normally side libertarianly with you but I disagree whole heartedly.

Nobody is suing because they won't hold an interracial marriage. Name the last time somebody was sued for discriminating on race.

The gays could have told them "FU, you bigot" and taken their business elsewhere, but instead sued. It is an agenda.
Posted by KSGamecock
The Woodlands, TX
Member since May 2012
22982 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:26 pm to
Why aren't the owners' religious beliefs being protected? I'm all for gay marriage but this is pretty dumb. Sounds like this couple was just fishing for cash.
Posted by Rebelgator
Pripyat Bridge
Member since Mar 2010
39543 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:31 pm to
quote:

The laws dictating this are the same ones that would punish them if they refused to allow interracial couples to be married on their land.


That law too is bullshite.

Why should you have to allow anyone to get married on your land?
Posted by TbirdSpur2010
ALAMO CITY
Member since Dec 2010
134026 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:38 pm to
quote:

The laws dictating this are the same ones that would punish them if they refused to allow interracial couples to be married on their land.



I'm no supporter (or opponent) of gay marriage, but this is correct.

quote:

people need to stop acting like this is some "gay agenda".


I disagree here.

As someone in an interracial marriage, if someone had had an issue with the locale my wife and I had chosen for our wedding, we would have just flipped 'em off and found a different spot we liked.

Suing takes the focus off the marriage and makes it about making a statement. Justified or no, the fact that this couple is willing to go this route and allow something else to take precedent over what is supposed to be their day of wedded bliss does indeed take it into the "agenda" realm, in my book.


Posted by UMRealist
Member since Feb 2013
35360 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 5:56 pm to
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people need to stop acting like this is some "gay agenda".



what?
Posted by Vols&Shaft83
Throbbing Member
Member since Dec 2012
69932 posts
Posted on 11/10/14 at 6:01 pm to
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but people need to stop acting like this is some "gay agenda".




They gay agenda is to PIIYB
Posted by Nicolae
Member since Dec 2012
1880 posts
Posted on 11/11/14 at 10:13 am to
quote:

The laws dictating this are the same ones that would punish them if they refused to allow interracial couples to be married on their land.

That doesn't mean I agree with this, but people need to stop acting like this is some "gay agenda".


Holy shite. Being black is not the same as being gay. Gonna start shite with this liberal board here, but you are born black, you are not born gay.

These people should allowed to refuse service to anyone for any reason and should refuse to pay this. It is the government overstepping it's bounds, they trying to force these people to do something that is deeply offensive to them, but yet you see no problem with that simply because the fairies got their way.
Posted by auggie
Opelika, Alabama
Member since Aug 2013
28137 posts
Posted on 11/11/14 at 4:03 pm to
" Their land" They should be able to refuse anything that they don't want happening there.
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