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Bigotry in the name of religious freedom President Trump supports businesses posting anti-gay signs stating they will not serve LGBT customers.
When asked during yesterdays White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the president has no problem with businesses displaying anti-gay signs.
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The lawyer for the solicitor generals office for the administration said today in the Supreme Court if it would be legal, possible for a baker to put a sign in his window saying we dont bake cakes for gay weddings. Does the president agree that that would be ok?
Sanders answered:
The president certainly supports religious liberty and thats something he talked about during the campaign and has upheld since taking office.
When asked if that included support for signs that deny service to gay people, Sanders replied:
I believe that would include that.
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VOX
(22,976 posts)This ASSHOLE is poison. Absolute poison. If he had lived in Germany c.1933, is there any doubt as to what hed be doing, with all of it state-sanctioned?
calimary
(81,527 posts)yardwork
(61,715 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)yardwork
(61,715 posts)They wanted their tax breaks.
lancelyons
(988 posts)The problem some Dems have is thinking this is just Donald Trump.
This is not just Donald Trump.
This is Millions of Americans that feel this way. This is the Fox News Audience that feel this way. After Trump there will be others just like him that do the same things.
Trump is a product of the Conservative Religious Right pushed by Fox News, etc
yardwork
(61,715 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Religious freedom to discriminate is not freedom in any sense of the word.
treestar
(82,383 posts)"I believe that would include that."
Buckeyeblue
(5,502 posts)Nor do I understand why any Baker would turn down any business. It's a really bad idea. Not only do they lose money on the cake but once word gets out, other people will not buy from them. All for what? It seems to me these people are attention seeking assholes.
If I went into a bakery (I'm a straight white male) and saw a sign that said no gay wedding cakes, I would leave.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)senior citizen. My nephew is gay. He is 100% more intelligent than any tRump, and much better looking. Anyone refusing service to him would get my ire up. Mikey Pence is a bigot who also supports these signs.
Farmer-Rick
(10,216 posts)Or triple K. They are doing just fine. Bigotry sells when bigotry is encouraged and promoted by governments. It keeps the masses from attacking the real danger......the kings of capitalism.
Soon we will be having straight and gay water fountains.
Welcome to the Koch brother's, little Putin's and Traitor Trump's world.
Mike Nelson
(9,973 posts)
but understandable from them. I'm surprised there was a White House Press briefing... never heard a word about one. I do think they should be covered, live, so we can see her lies and bigotry.
NotASurfer
(2,156 posts)of any fine, fine establishment that chooses to do so?
Dorn
(523 posts)I think we need a Procott
barbtries
(28,815 posts)that hawks hate. that's easy.
pwb
(11,294 posts)But i have never heard gays say they don't like people?
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I have various religious people ringing my doorbell trying to get me to go to their establishments. NEVER has a gay person come over, trying to convert me!! They want to live their lives just like the rest of us do, free from bigotry.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)ooky
(8,930 posts)Response to sharedvalues (Reply #12)
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DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)bigotry, ignorance and intolerance in the window, it's ok with me.
Farmer-Rick
(10,216 posts)Why do you think separate but equal lasted so long? Why was racism so prevalent in 1930? Because governments supported it, encouraged it, and it became almost patriotic to be a bigot. The businesses of racists in the early to mid 1900s were rarely hurt.
The free market will never resolve social ills but it will make profit off them.
But boycotts are a good start.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)That's why they have prayer meetings with him and lay their fucking hands on him. They're dominionists, and they want to take over the country. Religious Nazis is what they are.
watoos
(7,142 posts)I was criticized for calling Pence a Dominionist but he certainly is one in his words and actions. Pretty scary isn't it that "Gods chosen ones" can do no wrong. Even the Mormon Romney believes in the White Horse Prophesy which is similar to the Dominionists.
LuvNewcastle
(16,860 posts)and probably the scariest thing about them is that they're convinced that they are right about everything. They think the Bible is the absolute word of God, and if you disagree with them, you're disagreeing with God. Their churches are the perfect crucible for creating single-minded soldiers for God who are certain they are carrying out His wishes. And they're always looking for ways to increase their power politically.
Javaman
(62,534 posts)other than some small outfit called Thestranger.
do you have a transcript of this comment?
i'm not defending the orange asshole at all but this piece seems suspect.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)DECEMBER 7, 2017 BY MICHAEL STONE
When asked during yesterdays White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters the president has no problem with businesses displaying anti-gay signs.
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/12/white-house-trump-supports-businesses-posting-no-gays-signs/
Javaman
(62,534 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,014 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)yardwork
(61,715 posts)Dorn
(523 posts)What the hell is going on?
DFW
(54,448 posts)Where did they think the idea came from anyway?
hatrack
(59,594 posts)"Look!! Over there!!! TEH GAYZZZ!!!"
Look at anything - anything - but what's going on in my maladministration.