Antischism
05-14-2014, 09:01 PM
Not all Mississippi businesses plan to take advantage of a new law making it easier to discriminate against LGBT people in the name of religion. The American Family Association, apparently, would like to change that.
In a blog post published this week, the fundamentalist Christian activist group printed a list of what they called "Mississippi businesses that discriminate against religious freedom." That list, which the anti-LGBT group says is "taken directly from a pro-homosexual website," includes a number of businesses in the state who have agreed to display the sticker at right in their window. That sticker clarifies that the business in question will not refuse to serve a customer because of his or her sexual orientation.
http://action.afa.net/uploadedImages/Activism/AFA_Action_Alerts/Action_Alert_Related_Items/mssticker.jpg
The AFA believes this amounts to discrimination against Christians who might want to refuse to serve LGBT people in the state:
Ironically,this sticker represents the very promotion of discrimination...against the freedom of religious convictions. Businesses that display this sticker believe Christians should be forced, by law, to embrace homosexuality and deny their faith in personal business practices.
Get that? If you advertise that you don't discriminate, you're persecuting people who want to discriminate.
More here. (http://news.yahoo.com/sore-winners-christian-group-offended-mississippi-businesses-wont-174846100.html)
In a blog post published this week, the fundamentalist Christian activist group printed a list of what they called "Mississippi businesses that discriminate against religious freedom." That list, which the anti-LGBT group says is "taken directly from a pro-homosexual website," includes a number of businesses in the state who have agreed to display the sticker at right in their window. That sticker clarifies that the business in question will not refuse to serve a customer because of his or her sexual orientation.
http://action.afa.net/uploadedImages/Activism/AFA_Action_Alerts/Action_Alert_Related_Items/mssticker.jpg
The AFA believes this amounts to discrimination against Christians who might want to refuse to serve LGBT people in the state:
Ironically,this sticker represents the very promotion of discrimination...against the freedom of religious convictions. Businesses that display this sticker believe Christians should be forced, by law, to embrace homosexuality and deny their faith in personal business practices.
Get that? If you advertise that you don't discriminate, you're persecuting people who want to discriminate.
More here. (http://news.yahoo.com/sore-winners-christian-group-offended-mississippi-businesses-wont-174846100.html)