[Tuesday: 3.5 miles, today: 3.5 miles]
So, all sorts of angst and wailing after the Governor of Mississippi signed a bill giving objectors a way for avoiding participation in gay marriage.
Our local newspaper (vehemently against the bill) had a big headline on the front, their own editorial and two guest editorials, all against.
That makes 10 or 11 states that have passed such laws.
The only real argument from the anti-freedom types is that we shouldn’t “discriminate”, while on the other side of their mouth calling the pro-freedom types haters and bigots and whatever other nasty names are high on the list this month.
And the usually anti-big-business end of the political spectrum is happy to point out that big corporations are on the gay-marriage side or the who-cares-which-bathroom side ( or any other side that brings money in the front door). Giving legal standing to every minimum-wage lackey not wanting to serve canadian bacon would put a kink in the hiring practices at the local McDonalds.
So, we shall see what happens. The money and lawyers are all on the “you will be assimilated” side of things.
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When I was growing up I went to church and learned about the woman at the well. Now we see that if Jesus sold soda pop for a living, he’d not sell to the woman at the well and that would be “pro-freedom.”
Your analogy is faulty. But the picture of Jesus selling soda pop brought a smile.
I disagree (of course) and am curious why Christians go to the four corners of the world to preach to the unconverted (which to me is sanctimonious and presumptuous) but reject someone coming to their place of business. To me it looks like super convenient low hanging fruit.
Regardless, these events do not change my stereotype of Mississippi.
The soda pop is free. It’s value is immeasurable and no one can afford it. Our only choice is take it or leave it.
There is no rejection of persons involved, only rejection of participation. I would be happy to bake you a cake. But I’m not going to bake anyone a gay-marriage cake.
To follow your analogy, it’s that Jesus sells soda pop but he won’t sell the Samaritan woman a triple-shot of Jack Daniels. “But!”, you say, “a drink is a drink! Jesus obviously is an anti-Samaritan bigot, a hater, an evil discriminator.”
You could use your interpretation of my analogy to support jim crow.
Only if I were to insist that marriage and gay-marriage are the same thing. I’m insisting exactly the opposite.