Until recently, if a Mississippi shop-keeper refused to serve somebody, then the shop-keeper could be prosecuted and forced to pay damages to the victim.
Well the Mississippi Christians hated that idea. They said that every Christian had the right to discriminate against whomsoever they pleased, and the State should not have the right to stop them.
Governor Phil Bryant counted up the number of Christians screaming for the right to discriminate and realised there were enough of them to have a serious effect on his chances to win the next election - so he jumped onto their bandwagon.
He signed a religious freedom law that prevents police from
placing a burden on a person’s right to the exercise of religion.That's lawyer talk for,
Christians can discriminate against anyone they please and the cops can't touch them!
But some shop-keepers decided to invite the persecuted groups into their stores with this sign in their shop windows:
Well the Christians went berserk!
In an interview with One News Now on Monday, American Family Association Executive Vice President Buddy Smith suggested that the decals were an assault on Christian freedoms.
“It’s not really a buying campaign, but it’s a bully campaign,” he asserted. “And it’s being carried out by radical xxxxxx activists who intend to trample the freedom of Christians to live according to the dictates of scripture.”
“They don’t want to hear that xxxxxx is sinful behavior – and they wish to silence Christians and the church who dare to believe this truth.”
Smith warned that businesses that agreed to display the non-discrimination sticker were complicit in taking away the rights of Christians.
“If you do that, you are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience,” he insisted.
What Would Jesus Do?
He would agree with the bigots:
Whoever is not with me is against me
(Matthew 12:30)
And what does Jesus say should happen
to anyone who disagrees with him?
to anyone who disagrees with him?
It would be better for them to have a
large millstone hung around their neck
and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
(Matthew 18:6)
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Added one month later (May 30th, 2014)
At the Barbwire website, Gina Miller explains that shopkeepers displaying the anti-discrimination signs in their windows are "homofascist bullies" who have launched a campaign against all Christians. It is not the Christians who are being discriminatory says Gina Miller:
At the Barbwire website, Gina Miller explains that shopkeepers displaying the anti-discrimination signs in their windows are "homofascist bullies" who have launched a campaign against all Christians. It is not the Christians who are being discriminatory says Gina Miller:
The truth of the matter is the exact opposite of how the Left portrays it. Christians are not refusing to serve homosexuals, but homosexuals are targeting Christian-owned businesses with demands that would force the owners to participate in the desecration of marriage, in direct violation of their conscience. (link)So now you know.
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