RE: Indiana Pizzeria Won't Serve Gay Couples
April 3, 2015 at 2:20 pm
(This post was last modified: April 3, 2015 at 2:21 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
(April 3, 2015 at 1:24 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:(April 3, 2015 at 12:01 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: I take it then that as a Christian, if you were treated as a second-class citizen, refused service (at whichever level you choose to stipulate for this conversation) based solely on your faith ("We won't serve bigots!"), that you'd take it quietly, without so much as a murmur, and with no cries of "persecution!"? You'd eschew using your right to free speech and clam up about it? Take it like a man?
If so, you're a very rare Christian, indeed.
That isn't a fair comparison, because Christians are common as dirt in this country, so it would be easy to find someone who would serve him. To be a fair comparison, it would have to be that many businesses would refuse to serve him, like black people experienced 3/4 of a century ago.
The "if" indicates that the situation is hypothetical. I wasn't drawing a complete comparison, as should be obvious; I was comparing the treatment at the service desk, not the social attitudes of any given pair of historical eras.
I was asking what his feelings would be based on the actual treatment he received. It's pretty simple.
I'm still looking forward to his answer.