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By John M. Becker
Last night, before Arizona Governor Jan Brewer vetoed an anti-LGBT "right to discriminate" bill, Tea Party Republican Congresswoman Michele Bachmann went on The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and told the CNN host that she supports these bills.
Not only that, but she suggested that it would be "intolerant" to ask anti-LGBT evangelicals to serve all members of the public and play by the same rules as everyone else in the public marketplace.
Asked by Blitzer if the bill will "open the door for less tolerance for gays," Bachmann answered, "In fact, it's just the opposite. This is a decided level of intolerance. It's effectively eviscerating the rights of freedom of speech, expression, and religious expression for the people of Arizona and it sets a terrible precedent."
Blitzer pushed back, calling the bill "discriminatory" and not "respectful" to the gay community.
"Remember we are treating people who hold sincerely-held religious beliefs differently than other Americans either," Bachmann said. "This isn't one side or another. What we're talking is tolerance on both sides. And it is not tolerant to force people to violate their religious beliefs." She said if Brewer does veto the bill, it will "serve us not very well in terms of tolerance in the United States."
Don't you love how she assumes that all "sincerely-held religious beliefs" are anti-LGBT, completely ignoring the many religious traditions and people of faith who proudly and boldly support equality? Oh Michele.
Read more at http://www.bilerico.com/2014/02/bachmann_to_blitzer_tolerate_evangelical_intoleran.php
barnabas63
(1,214 posts)Instead, why don't you kiss my ***!
wocaonimabi
(187 posts)Open a PRIVATE Club you can keep out gays, blacks, even women! You can discriminate against anyone you want!
You can open a PRIVATE Membership only Store and you can flog your goods in a 100% homo free environment!
Why Every Single Church in America is FREE to Discriminate against anyone they want 100% LEGAL!
You can be a bigot on your OWN Property you can even put up billboards on your property lit 24/7 with flood lights proclaiming your hate for gays and anyone else you want too! (Local zoning laws permitting of course).
What you cannot do is have a businees open to the public except for________ (Insert group you hate).
If you are a baker and worried that gays will come and want you to bake a cake for them you are free to put up a poster in in window or even in you ads that say "God Hates Fags" people will get the message and you will not have to worry about having to make a cake and burning in hell, the gays and most normal folks will stay away. Plenty of bakers are willing to take $1000+ dollars for a pile of flour, butter, eggs, sugar, milk and flavorings baked in in oven, they will even thrown in 2 plastic guys or gals for the top too and even wish then well instead of bun in hell sodimites.
See how easy it is to be a bigot in America!