(July 23, 2015 at 10:44 pm)Beccs Wrote: Wonder how these people who object to doing their damned jobs for religious reasons would respond to, say, a doctor refusing to treat Christian patients?

cause it would be a shame to prevent them from going to heaven right? It's what they want.

(July 24, 2015 at 3:02 am)Huggy74 Wrote:

(July 24, 2015 at 2:52 am)Starvald Demelain Wrote: *sigh*

Yes, and evidently more than a few Christians believe it's a contradiction of their beliefs to even interact with certain people. 

I know it's hard for you to keep up, but this is just sad. 

Really? So people just show up at the pharmacy and announce they're gay?

There is nothing in the bible prohibiting a christian from interacting with "certain people", therefore it's not against any Christian belief....

Wait. stop. come back. I'm not as verbaly violent as my fellow atheists however I must contest on this point https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?se...ersion=ESV
If that didn't come through correctly (my computer savy isn't the best) then ill explain what it means to me the casual reader. It says don't associate with non-believers. there are others. just google what the bible says about non-believers and you will see. It's not pretty my friend.

(July 24, 2015 at 2:28 am)Huggy74 Wrote: look at my avatar genius, does it look like I'm in faux news demo?

But hey, nice to know you're not discriminating when the story fits your agenda....

?  My avatar is an Egyptian god with a big cock.  So what?  I never claimed to be Egyptian.

And sadly, you are the demographic that FUX goes for.  Dumb-as-a-fucking-rock jesus-spouting assholes.  That's why I used the FUX as the source.  Saves that whole bullshit argument over the supposed "liberal" media.

(July 24, 2015 at 2:46 am)Huggy74 Wrote:

(July 24, 2015 at 2:39 am)Starvald Demelain Wrote: Are you seriously asking if some Christians will refuse services? Fuck me running. There's Christians who will refuse to bake a fucking cake for people they don't like, what the hell do you think? 

Fucktard. 

Yes, when it contradict their beliefs, which providing contraception does... that's nothing new, Christians also don't believe in gay marriage, hence the refusal to make cakes.... also nothing new. however providing medicine in general doesn't contradict anyone's belief, and if it did, boy did he choose the wrong profession.

You brain must be as smooth as a boiled egg..

Actually, providing medicine does contradict some people's religious beliefs.  But that is not the main thing I wish to point out.

In the case of a pharmacy selling drugs, if one has a moral problem with it, one ought not be a pharmacist.  In the case of baking cakes, if one believes that cake baking is immoral, one ought not be a baker of cakes.

These assholes want to have their cake and eat it too.  If your moral standards do not allow you to do a particular job, you should get a different job.  Otherwise, if we let people refuse service for religious reasons, people will be refusing service to black people and any other people they want to refuse service to, and that is unacceptable.  Many racist assholes would be happy to go back to the old ways of segregation and exclusion of black people, refusing service to them, on religious grounds.

If you don't want to dispense drugs, fine, don't be a pharmacist.  If you don't want to bake cakes, fine, don't be a baker.  Pick something that you are willing to do, not something that you are not willing to do.

For a Christian baker to refuse to bake a cake for a gay couple, based on religious principles, is absurd.

The baker doesn't wish to offend God by enabling others to sin.

But according to Christian belief, we are ALL sinners....Christians included.

Why not refuse service to everyone, then?

Bad for business.

And making money is the xtians true 'god.'

(July 24, 2015 at 12:56 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Bad for business.

And making money is the xtians true 'god.'

While I agree with the sentiment of your statement, I feel the need to qualify it:

If money was really the most important thing to them, they would have simply taken the gay couple's money,
which is as good as anyone else's money.

No....this is about CONTROL.  And control is really what all religion is really about.

You don't understand advertising very well.  They wanted to be THE JESUS LOVING BAKER so all the other jesus-loving shitheads would support them and patronize their shop.

Religion is always about marketing, my friend.

(July 24, 2015 at 1:01 pm)Minimalist Wrote: You don't understand advertising very well.  They wanted to be THE JESUS LOVING BAKER so all the other jesus-loving shitheads would support them and patronize their shop.

Religion is always about marketing, my friend.

But WHAT are they marketing?

(July 24, 2015 at 3:12 am)Huggy74 Wrote: I'm trying to figure out what you're talking about....
Am I against abortion? Yes

Am I against Contraception? No, They aren't the same.

I'll explain it simply to you since you apparently don't know the difference. Contraception prevents a pregnancy from happening, while an abortion terminates a pregnancy.

Got it?

Do you do this on purpose to be intentionally frustrating, or do you seriously have what appears to be a significant comprehension problem?

Morning after pills are considered to be a form of contraception. Christers, with their ridiculous life at conception horseshit, consider the morning after pill to be abortion so some refuse to dispense based on a religion. Morning after pills are contraception, you're just going to have to deal with it.