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nightscanner59

(802 posts)
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 09:19 PM Aug 2014

Despite how far we've come we still live in the dark ages.

I read with heavy heart about yet another bakery refusing to serve a gay couple. I put the following on a poll site just a couple hours ago:
http://www.sodahead.com/living/straights-only-should-be-displayed-prominently/question-4451959/
The flood of asinine homophobic BS in responses is already distressing.
I'm serious. If these bigots are going to hold their moral yardstick up to customers to serve them, they should have to warn everyone of their scruples.

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Despite how far we've come we still live in the dark ages. (Original Post) nightscanner59 Aug 2014 OP
“You want to know something? Bluenorthwest Aug 2014 #1
Oh, man shenmue Aug 2014 #2
Wow. That was depressing. theHandpuppet Aug 2014 #3
 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
1. “You want to know something?
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 09:28 PM
Aug 2014

We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet.”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr

shenmue

(38,506 posts)
2. Oh, man
Thu Aug 14, 2014, 09:40 PM
Aug 2014


Why do people have to be this mean? How much does it suck to be a fire-and-brimstone heartless ass?
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