Homosexuals "wrecking" Christian careers

[SteelCurtain]

First, majorities do not oppress minorities. Groups in power oppress the groups without power. The white minority oppressed the black majority for years in South Africa....but you are probably too young to remember that. I can give you numerous other examples. If you want to stop oppression, don't let power get concentrated. How do you stop power from getting concentrated? Empower the individual...let them have the power.

I'm not sure this is axiomatic, but I'll give it to you.

Second, it was government intervention that caused segregation in the first place. If you knew your history, you would know that African americans were doing a fine job digging themselves out of poverty after slavery. It took government actions like Jim Crow laws and wage regulations to shove them off the economic ladder.

This is blatantly misrepresenting things. You are making government out to be some entity apart from human forces. The reason government made segregation laws in the first place is because men believed black people to be inferior to them, and thought everything would be better for everyone if everyone just stuck with their own kind. So they wrote laws. Racist people made racist laws. You represent things like the will of the men in power (read: majority) had nothing to do with government.

Third, Slavery is absolutely being forced to do something against your will. If you do not want to call it slavery, then call it extortion. No matter what you call it, it isn't pretty. Forcing a baker to provide services to a person he doesn't wish to provide is absolutely slavery. It is economic rape.....It is sad that you advocate such a system.

You use these words pretty nonchalantly, Heywood. They mean very real things, and you are being very disrespectful.

It is very much not slavery or rape or even extortion to insist that if you want to open a business in a progressive society, you are obliged not to discriminate based on things a person cannot help, like race, sexuality, gender, or age. You can hold whatever beliefs you want, but if you want to open a public business, it's not allowed.