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Apparently, although the details are not exact. What happened was a bunch of conservative christian republicans tried to pass a law to establish their beliefs ... but they did such a bad job of it, made it so general (in order to not appear to be religiously based) that people could end up discriminating against christians (heaven forfend). Freedom of religious beliefs are already protected, what is not protected is discrimination. Tyranny is when laws are passed that allow discrimination over human rights. It was saved when this discriminatory bill was vetoed -- by a conservative republican governor.Would you like to live in a place that had signs "no christians welcome here" or "we reserve the right to refuse service to christians" ??? Really ???That is something the bill would have allowed.

When I opened my business with one employee, one of the federal regulations regarding the operation of a business was to put up a poster in a clearly visible location for all employees to see. It listed all the forms of discrimination that could not be invoked by the employer and how employees could seek redress if they felt their rights were being unfairly infringed. Including, but not limited to, lawsuits."EEO is the Law" Poster | U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission This means your don't have a right to discriminate ... and it also means you are protected from discrimination: it's a two-way street, and it's part of the social contract for living in a community - to behave unto others the way you expect them to behave towards you.

But it isn't basic moral attitudes based on Christianity -- evidence: not all Christians believe it's wrong to be gay and many Christian churches preform gay weddings.What it is, Faith, is a bunch of bigots that use their religion as a crutch to justify their bigotry to themselves.If you want to see persecution of Christians go to Iraq ... where people are being killed for their beliefs.You live in a society that allows freedom of religion, and that means you have the freedom to practice your beliefs without being discriminated against because of them -- to get that right you allow others the same right to practice their beliefs without being discriminated against because of them.Christianity is not singled out for persecution, but it also isn't allowed to persecute others. The last time I checked, being in favor of all people enjoying equal rights under the law was not a definition of bigotry.

Curiously, nobody is asking you to be a homosexual, nor are they inviting you into their bedroom, nor is anybody considering laws to force this on you.So nobody is trying to force you to do something in violation of your bible (unless it is significantly different from the version I have).What people can do, however is ask that you abide by it, and love your neighbor, judge not lest you be judged, love the sinner, etc.What people can do, is ask you to embrace the constitution in general, the amendments that change it to increasingly recognize the basic human rights of all people: blacks as equals with voting rights, then women voting rights, the rights of disabled; that there is still work to do on economic rights (equal pay for work of equal value) ... and recognize that we, as a nation, will continue to improve the recognition of the basic human rights of all people.

What we saw was that the broader community raised such a groundswell of objection that the law was vetoed for being the bad law that it was -- it was like the "stand your ground" for bigots everywhere: discriminate first then justify it because your beliefs were threatened.Instead of laws to protect bullies we should have laws that protect victims.

Fred Phelps is not prevented by law from expressing his views.So Christians are not prevented by law from expressing their views.

bigotry
noun, plural bigotries.
1. stubborn and complete intolerance of any creed, belief, or opinion that differs from one's own.Synonyms
1. narrow-mindedness, bias, discrimination. bigotry
n , pl -ries
the attitudes, behaviour, or way of thinking of a bigot; prejudice; intoleranceNote this doesn't say hatred Faith, it just says stubborn, intolerant, prejudicial, narrow-minded biased discriminatory behavior is bigotry.Now I could go through and list all the other posts where you demonstrate this in spades, because you are an unabashed bigot.It's not about hatred, it's about moral social behavior and treating all other people the way you expect to be treated regardless of who they are.This is where fundamentalist teaching harms people.There is no fundamental right to be a bigot. There is a fundamental right to equal treatment regardless of race, age, sex, creed, orientation, culture, or any other category you want to apply.Edited by RAZD, : ..Edited by RAZD, : .