(April 2, 2015 at 10:41 am)Mezmo! Wrote:The difference is only a matter of degree.(April 2, 2015 at 8:52 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Ah, then by that reasoning you'd be fine with the bakery turning away all african american...Never. The black experience in America isn't even remotely comparable to homosexuality. I've never heard of institutionalised gay slavery. Have you. Did gays ever have to use separate water fountains and swimming pools. Don't think so.
We did see black people refused service at public venues, though. We did see several states outlawing interracial marriage. And the arguments for continued segregation and against interracial marriage can be found in the Bible and were used by the fundamentalists who wanted nothing more than to feel good about their religion-fed bigotry.
"There remain four irreducible objections to religious faith: that it wholly misrepresents the origins of man and the cosmos, that because of this original error it manages to combine the maximum servility with the maximum of solipsism, that it is both the result and the cause of dangerous sexual repression, and that it is ultimately grounded on wish-thinking." ~Christopher Hitchens, god is not Great
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