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Bills filed in the South Dakota and Kansas legislatures seek to protect clergy, church officials and businesspeople who refuse to provide services for same-sex marriages or receptions because of their religious beliefs.
The bills would prevent clergy or businesses from being forced to perform or supply goods or services to anything related to same-sex marriages. It could allow a business to refuse to host a reception for a same-sex couple legally married in another state.
The bills also say clergy and businesses could not be sued or charged with crimes if they refused to take part in gay marriages.
Is a religious belief not enough to follow your own conscience? Its a free world.. I support gay rights but those rights STOP when it interferes with another person's rights... For instance, you have a right to throw your fists into the air but those rights STOP when it touches another person's face..
Good. Its about time. Let the homosexual lobby attack business in your state eventually they will leave for a friendlier state. Its pretty petty and sad when homosexual do this on purpose knowing full well the businesses won't bake their cake or do their floral arrangements for their "wedding".
Its pretty petty and sad when homosexual do this on purpose knowing full well the businesses won't bake their cake or do their floral arrangements for their "wedding".
Ah yes the ceremonial trotting out of the cake baking analogy. I wondered how soon it would come up? I figured it would be on the first page. You did not disappoint. Good job!
They are just proposed bills, and there have been some crazier ones proposed...like Mike Lee proposing one to eliminate child labor laws. People can propose bills for anything but it doesn't mean they will pass.
Personally I don't think churches or clergy should be forced to do something they disagree with on moral opinions. I don't agree with their reasoning, as I am very vocal in condemning the picking and choosing Old Testement law in order to hate against other human beings, but I don't agree they should be forced to perform ceramonies.
Businesses shouldn't descriminate on the basis of what people are born with.
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