GOP lawmakers: Christian businesses should have more rights than secular companies like Chipotle

[riversedge]

make no mistake--Republicans and SC will ingrain this vile into laws



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GOP lawmakers: Christian businesses should have more rights than secular companies like Chipotle
Travis Gettys
18 Mar 2015 at 13:27 ET

A pair of Republican lawmakers claimed that Christian business owners had arguably more rights than corporations that uphold secular values.

Sen. James Lankford (R-OK) and Rep. Randy Forbes (R-VA) published a column at The Christian Post that compared environmental concerns to moral aversions to LGBT customers or birth control – although the lawmakers never specify those objections.

The column compares Chipotle’s decision to stop serving pork at some locations over environmental concerns to the religious rights some Christians have claimed in court battles over denying service to same-sex couples or contraception to employees, reported Right Wing Watch.

The column focuses on Chipotle’s reputation as “a fast-food chain with a conscience,” arguing that Christians business owners should be free to impose their views on customers and workers.

“There is a distinct social good to preserving the freedom of individuals to form and operate a business based on deeply held principles rooted in conscience,” the lawmakers argue in a jointly signed column.

They said Americans had long been free to “openly and fully live their lives according to the moral values that motivate them, even when reasonable people disagree with those values.”

[flobee1]

1. social good?

These neo Confederates have never done anything for the social good!

[guillaumeb]

3. sure they have!

if you define society as rich white people. Come to think of it, that IS how they define society and Amerikkka

[upaloopa]

2. Hate is not a moral value

[DonCoquixote]

4. minor problem

Chipolte did it in part due to CUSTOMER DEMAND, Two: they did it based on provable scientific facts which are the same to all, regardless of what religion you are.

These two just hate the idea that they do not have a monoply on morality.

[safeinOhio]

5. All farm animals are equal,

only pigs are more equal.

[Politicalboi]

6. We need to call the GOP ISIS

They're almost as radical. If they knew they could get away with beheading, they would do it.

[RKP5637]

10. They are! Someone asked in another post what the endgame of the republican party is. More and more

it looks like genocide IMO. The only thing keeping the republican party in check with their fundies are our current laws. I don't trust the republican party one bit. The old republican party was fine and added balance to our system. The new republican party is dangerous. I wish more people understood that!

[KamaAina]

7. Hmmm. What about "Jewish businesses" like, oh, I don't know, Manischewitz?

Funny how they never, ever crop up in these discussions.

[Initech]

8. First Amendment says hi!

[stone space]

9. So if we let resturaunts choose their own menus, we...

...have to let business discriminate in who they serve?

Seriously?

That's the argument?



Ok, I guess they had no argument at all, and had to give some excuse, and comparing restaurants choosing their own menus with business choosing their own customers seemed as good as any other argument that they could come up with.

I kinda' sympathetic, in a way.

It's not like they had a lot of good material to work with here.

Any excuse they offered was bound to sound just a wee bit silly.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Doesn't the fact that they wrote the article attest to the lack of

critical thinking and logic skills?