Re: same sex regulations - discrimination against Christians?

On Fri, 18 May 2007 08:34:26 GMT, Peter Ashby put finger to keyboard
and typed:

Mark Goodge <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:28:03 GMT, Peter Ashby put finger to keyboard
and typed:

<marcandmia@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I wondered what other Christians on this group think about the new
regulations?

Some Christians will be affected for example:
1) Christian printers who may be asked to print material promoting
homosexuality
2) adoption agencies
3) residential homes - same sex couples might ask for a double room
4) hotel / b & b owners

This atheist thinks that people offering goods and services in the
public sphere should decide if they really want to be in the public
sphere or not. They should also realise they benefit from that secular
space as much as everyone else. Or would you not object if your wife was
abused for not covering here head when passing a mosque or entering a
moslem place of business? freedom of religion must also include freedom
from each other's religion.

If I choose not to buy from a Muslim shopkeeper because I disagree
with his religion, or from a gay shopkeeper because I disagree with
his lifestyle, then that is entirely my decision - no-one can, or
should be able to, force me to do business with someone of whom I
disapprove. Equally, if either of those shopkeepers chooses not to
sell to me because they disagree with my religion or lifestyle, then
that, too, is their decision - it is not a matter for the law to tell
them that they must do business with me.

So you want the situation that pertains in Northern Ireland then, where
the sectarian divide applies to shops.

I'd prefer that to unjust legislation which unnecessarily interferes
in the ability of people to run their own lives and businesses in ways
which cause no significant harm to other people, yes.

Even if people want to shop in a
business owned and/or run by someone from across the divide they do not
dare, lest he opprobrium of their 'community' descend on them for
fraternising with the enemy. THAT is what your personal choice to
discriminate and act on your bigotry lead to.

Ans you think that legislation will change that? Why not go a stage
further and burn their books as well, since you don't seem very happy
with allowing people to live according to a moral code that you don't
agree with.


Mark
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