Feelings about Indiana's new law?

My opinion is that discrimination is wrong, but if you build a business with your own hands, you should be able to do whatever you want with it. Refusing service is a minor annoyance at best, and people really need to put their grown up pants on and stop screaming and crying if they feel they were treated "unfairly". I'd be upset if some one refused me service for my zany hair, but I wouldn't expect the government to shut down said business, or sue them. It's a part of life, I wasn't physically harmed, and I can take my business else where.

Indiana has the right idea. More freedom to the people with a less oppressive government.

Sure people had the same mindset when it come to segregation of black and white people. Religion is a choice. Someone's sexuality is not. You can change your zany hair, someone can't change who they're sexually attracted to. You should not be able to discriminate against people especially when it comes to something the person can't change.

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that's good, abortion = murder

You can't murder what was never alive. A fetus is just potential life.
 
i think its disgusting. most people who don't support the LGBT community are christians - yet they say God loves all? yet then they say he hates gays? lol, honey no.
 
Who doesn't hate it that isn't Indiana.

I swear, I'm unfriending anyone who supports that law. I don't care how close we are, it's terrible and Draconian.
 
At the very least, I'm glad that businesses that choose to discriminate will suffer from public outrage. This won't and shouldn't last very long.
 
Yes, I do. I WAS referring to the government, which I should've made more clear.

Ah, just making sure. The reason I asked is because I've been seeing a lot of generalizing that the entire states populace is one big bigoted giant.

Also while I'm here, to be quite honest, all this boycott Indiana stuff has me upset almost as much as the bill passing does. I understand the national outrage, but a lot of people seem to be forgetting that there's a sizable LGBTQIA community in Indiana (numbering over 200,000) and by boycotting the state, they're going to be hurting Indiana's economy, which will in turn hurt everyone who lives here. So while the nutjobs that support Mike Pence and the RFRA will be getting what's coming to them, the entire state and its people will also be getting dragged along with them. People that should not be dealing with the consequences that Bigots will be facing.

#BoycottBigots, not Indiana.
 
I don't think it really matters
it's their store/restaurant, they can choose to serve who they want

Mmm
And this has nothing at all to do with your opinion that Homosexual acts are 'disgusting'?

No one deserves discrimination over their sexuality, unless they're assaulting minors (or something of the sort).
 
i think its disgusting. most people who don't support the LGBT community are christians - yet they say God loves all? yet then they say he hates gays? lol, honey no.

What's wrong with Christian's?

Ablesister is referring to how the majority of Christians say "God loves everyone", but they then turn around to actively hate on/insult LGBTQIA+ people/community.
Long story short, there's nothing wrong with Christians in general; there's something wrong with part of the community that preaches "love" but chooses to spread hate.
 
They're referring to the Christians who say that God loves and accepts everyone, except gays.

Thanks for saying that before the other person responded, I would've gotten this thread closed. xD

Still waiting for news of riots and closed down bussinesses....

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Ablesister is referring to how the majority of Christians say "God loves everyone", but they then turn around to actively hate on/insult LGBTQIA+ people/community.
Long story short, there's nothing wrong with Christians in general; there's something wrong with part of the community that preaches "love" but chooses to spread hate.

Majority? :P My entire family is Christian, but we all support the LGBTQA community, and my family's huge. :3
 
Thanks for saying that before the other person responded, I would've gotten this thread closed. xD

Majority? :P My entire family is Christian, but we all support the LGBTQA community, and my family's huge. :3

No problem. It's great that your family supports the LGBTQA community, however, sadly, a lot of Christian's don't support the community, either.
 
Majority? :P My entire family is Christian, but we all support the LGBTQA community, and my family's huge. :3

Your Family =/= Majority of Christians

Around a third of people on Earth are Christian, unless your family is really freakin' huge, they do not make up a large majority of Christians.
 
Your Family =/= Majority of Christians

Around a third of people on Earth are Christian, unless your family is really freakin' huge, they do not make up a large majority of Christians.

I know, but out of my family, I figured if the majority of Christians don't, atleast one person im my family wouldn't either. :P Sorry for the confusion.
 
Not interjecting anywhere, but I always feel for anyone under the LGBTQA spectrum, using this particular case as the religion of choice, that looks towards Christianity for solace but are wary of it. I cannot relate as an agnostic but it hurts my heart seeing them so despondent.
 
Personally, I find this law very childlike and ignorant as it serves no such worth or contribution to society or the environment as a whole whatsoever . If a law has to put other people down for believing in what they believe in, as well as for people loving who they want to love just because it is out of social norms, than I really am sad to say that I even remotely live in a society with human beings who cannot even rationally function the use their brains correctly since they are solely clouded upon nothing more but hate, ignorance and lack of acceptance. This world is run by people who put negativity onto us humans everyday to make our lives difficult, and now they feel the need to make it even more problematic than it already is. We all have a right to live our lives the way we do, free of scorn and animosity because truthfully, who said that "their" way of thinking is even correct? Nobody has the answers to this world. Nobody can teach us humans how to live properly or even correctly for that matter. There are "opinions" that people can give, but are they facts? Not even close. Everyone lives their lives different. People just want to get through on a day to day basis happily since life is too short.

For people that tell you "No, this is wrong you can't believe in that because it says so or you can't love that person because etc or you will never make it in life yadda yadda" probably can't even give one logical explanation as to why you can't. They speak without thinking and they try to find an answer to a question that has none. These are the people that will one day regret giving that law when they find out one day that their son, daughter, grandchild or best friend may even fall into one of these categories and then they would wish they had open their eyes earlier and would've never had made that law. When they start to see the ones they love get hurt, cursed at, neglected and spit on by the people they had once deemed as "friends" because they had thought like them, they are in for a rude awakening. Those are the people who will eventually learn the hard way.

Sadly, from what I have gathered during my short 22 years living on this Earth, I have learned that everything in this world has a balance of both good and bad. When something bad happens, there usually will be something good to help accommodate and retain that balance. Truthfully, if hate didn't exist, we wouldn't know what love would be and vice versa. The sad part is, is that no matter what people do, there will always be a dark to the light, a negative for a positive. In a way, if we really didn't have people who showed their hate towards others, their anger, then we as a people would've never had been able to show the love we have for those who do get picked on, cursed at or hurt. It's like a double edged sword. Sadly, for the people who want to stand out, be themselves and be different than what society dictates, then they get axed. They get punished. That is something that I never could fully comprehend.

The sad part is that these people are worrying over something that is so disgustingly miniscule, that it doesn't even come close to the real problems this world is currently facing. How about they make a law to start helping people in 3rd world countries to eat and drink or help build this ever failing of an economy we live in get back up? How about they actually do something productive instead of making a law that helps people get their baby anger issues out on people who did nothing to them? Again, my mind simply cannot grasp the sheer and utter stupidity that this world brings upon people at times. I just hope those people who get picked on for being themselves in Indiana get spared and that no harm really comes to them. We have enough suicidal children/teens/adults as it is in this life. Why make it harder?
 
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When you decide your religion makes it ok for you to discriminate other people
a) you're doing it wrong
b)Its no longer freedom of speech when ur using your freedom to take away the freedom of others
 
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