Sore Winners: Christian Group Offended by Mississippi Businesses That Won't Discriminate Against Gay

[joeybee12]

Not all Mississippi businesses plan to take advantage of a new law making it easier to discriminate against LGBT people in the name of religion. The American Family Association, apparently, would like to change that

In a blog post published this week, the fundamentalist Christian activist group printed a list of what they called "Mississippi businesses that discriminate against religious freedom." That list, which the anti-LGBT group says is "taken directly from a pro-homosexual website," includes a number of businesses in the state who have agreed to display the sticker at right in their window. That sticker clarifies that the business in question will not refuse to serve a customer because of his or her sexual orientation.

The AFA believes this amounts to discrimination against Christians who might want to refuse to serve LGBT people in the state:

Ironically,this sticker represents the very promotion of discrimination...against the freedom of religious convictions. Businesses that display this sticker believe Christians should be forced, by law, to embrace homosexuality and deny their faith in personal business practices.

Get that? If you advertise that you don't discriminate, you're persecuting people who want to discriminate.

http://news.yahoo.com/sore-winners-christian-group-offended-mississippi-businesses-wont-174846100.html

[Ilsa]

1. Leave it to RWers to try and convince

The public that up is down.

[joeybee12]

3. Amazing, isn't it? nt

[sheshe2]

2. WTF!

[pstokely]

4. they want protectionist policies for their bigotry

nt

[Jamastiene]

5. This shows their true intent.

They might claim a lot of lies, but the truth is they will not be happy until everyone is forced to discriminate against gay people whether they want to or not....and eventually, they will want the same type of law like Uganda has. That is their test on how to work that law in and keep it in. Once they get it the way they want it there, they will try to bring it here....if we don't find a way to fight them harder than we are already doing. Laws like that Ugandan law are what they REALLY want to eventually have.