Anti-Gay Group: Businesses ‘Trample’ The Freedom of Mississippi Christians By Serving LGBT People

[big_dog]

Source: The Raw Story

Buddy Smith, the leader of a group that opposes equal rights for LGBT people, argued businesses in Mississippi were “bullying” Christians by advertising non-discrimination policies. Mitchell Moore, the owner of Campbell’s Bakery in Fondren, started providing local businesses with “We Don’t Discriminate” decals after his state passed the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act to give companies the right not to serve gay and lesbian customers. “We hoped really that we as business owners could finally speak for ourselves and not have politicians speaking for us,” Moore explained. “They kept using business as an excuse, saying, you know, ‘We need this for businesses so that we can prevent discrimination against Christians.’”

He added: “We’re in Mississippi. I’ve never been discriminated against as a Christian.” By Friday, the blue stickers had been distributed to over 400 businesses. “It may be political, but I’m not making that stance,” Moore said. “This is about business. This is about a business owner and local business saying, ‘Hey, don’t listen to the politicians. We will sell our product to everybody.”

But in an interview with One News Now on Monday, American Family Association Executive Vice President Buddy Smith suggested that the decals were an assault on Christian freedoms. “It’s not really a buying campaign, but it’s a bully campaign,” he asserted. “And it’s being carried out by radical homosexual activists who intend to trample the freedom of Christians to live according to the dictates of scripture.”
“They don’t want to hear that homosexuality is sinful behavior – and they wish to silence Christians and the church who dare to believe this truth.”

Smith warned that businesses that agreed to display the non-discrimination sticker were complicit in taking away the rights of Christians.
If you do that, you are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience,” he insisted.



Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/29/anti-gay-group-businesses-trample-the-freedom-of-christians-by-serving-lgbt-people/

[RKP5637]

1. These people aren't christians that he thinks are having their rights taken away! n/t

[MissMillie]

2. If I put a sticker in my window

how does that trample on someone else's rights?

[christx30]

5. Because their views are not

about their right to live as they want. Their views are about their right to force people to live as they want to. And those stickers are saying "no. You have no right to force your religion on me."
Send me 200 stickers

[MissMillie]

41. they can still have their misguided views

Just because I'm speaking my mind w/ a sticker, doesn't mean I'm stopping them from doing anything.

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Excuse me, by Mr. Smith is full of steer manure

And furthermore, he can go to Hell.

[TygrBright]

4. Let me get this straight... If I don't discriminate...

...against people YOU are discriminating against...

I'm "trampling your Freedom"?

WTF?!?

Can the cognitive disconnect here be any more acute?

There went my last irony meter, too...

bemusedly,
Bright

[AtheistCrusader]

7. It's very simple.

They know they can't compete with businesses that don't discriminate, so they want to force these businesses that don't discriminate to stop advertising that fact.

Because it makes the bigots look like bigots, and they don't like that light being shined in their faces.

[TlalocW]

6. I love how he's the spokesperson for ALL Christians

Also, I'm looking forward to them doing something other than whining about it - which is their First Amendment Right. Something that steps over that boundary so a business owner can take them to court using that same law by claiming their religious beliefs of not discriminating were being infringed.

These stupid fuckwads with their stupid religious laws that they think that once they're passed can only be applied to their point of view. They never consider the possibility of it biting them in their collective ass.

TlalocW

[olddad56]

8. next someone will be try to bully Buddy Smith into believing that the Earth is round.

[Ikonoklast]

9. Another "Christian" pissed off that he can't use the force of law to discriminat against those he ha

hates.


The tsunami of social change is enraging these types of religiously intolerant assholes who have had it their way for so long now.

[Bluenorthwest]

20. Actually he can, in his State he can fire, evict or refuse employment to a

person for being gay, directly and without hesitation. That is also the case in 28 other States, the entire South and some others. There is no Federal law protecting LGBT people from this discrimination, even though such legislation has been sought since the 70's.

[The Green Manalishi]

10. I think a little extra attention from the IRS to the non sticker businesses would be good

[mindwalker_i]

11. The only reasonable thing to do, at this point

is to kick this guy in the nuts. Hard. Repeatedly. Rude Pundit style.

He isn't making an argument but rather, he's just throwing a steaming pile of BS out there in the hope of getting everything and everyone dirty. There is no reasoning, there is no thought-out thinking being done. It's purely ejection of a massive, steaming pile that has no chance of survival out of the womb from which it was born.

As such, to argue against said steaming pile gives it more life than it would ever have on its own. Arguing about it lends a layer of legitimacy, like an ugly pond scum that makes everybody look a little more like this asshole.

So somebody kick this guy in the nuts and be done with it.

[VWolf]

42. LOL @ "Rude Pundit style"

I can just imagine

[Swede Atlanta]

12. Another "victim"..........

I am so tired of these people claiming to be victims........

Yesterday it was Congresscritter Grimm that he was the victim of a political witch hunt

Today it is that if some businesses advertise they will serve everyone, in the face of a law that gives businesses the right to discriminate against LGBT persons, somehow that tramples on Smith and his hateful bigoted friends' rights to practice their religion and are bullying them?

Really I suggest Mr. Smith go to Iran or Saudi Arabia. He would be happy there because he will see that those uppity homosexuals are severely punished for being queer and ungodly and sometimes even put to death. Yeah, that's what God wants. He wants people put to death because they are living lives true to how God made them.

I'm not advocating anything bad on this guy but I wish he would crawl in a hole and cover himself with dirt or climb aboard a rocket ship and blast off for the far edges of the universe.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

16. The last thing we need is to send him out into space

With our luck he would get found by super aliens that had been content to let us develop on our own but thanks to him they'll decide to eliminate us all for the good of the galaxy.

[Bluenorthwest]

21. He'd feel at home in Uganda, with it's thriving Christian majority and vicious

anti gay laws. In Uganda, his rhetoric would be seen as mild, for the Roman Catholic Bishops there are calling for death to gay people because the jail for life bill did not go far enough, the Anglicans are worse and the unaffiliated Protestants as bad as the other two.

[allan01]

13. meh

poor babies

[malthaussen]

14. I get so tired of seeing this bull.

These people make me tired. Same old nonsense, repeated time and again. The sad thing is, they give their co-religionists a bad name by touting such stupidity.

-- Mal

[cheapdate]

15. Hahaha! It's called the free market, baby!

[SoapBox]

17. What a load of fuck'n bullshit.

I wish these HATING assholes would buy a one-way ticket to Russia...Czar Putin is right up their alley.

[Jefferson23]

18. The upside down world of bigots. Good on those opposing this abuse. n/t

[DesertDiamond]

19. Their teaching includes the right to force their religion on others, therefore it MUST be HONORED!

[pinto]

22. radical homosexual activists...and bakers!

"They're cooking something up. And we're outraged, I tell you. Outraged. Oh wait, we're victims, I tell you. Victims!"

[Rocknrule]

23. Neo-Nazi Group: Businesses ‘Trample’ The Freedom of Anti-Semites By Serving Jews

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KKK: Businesses ‘Trample’ The Freedom of White Supremacists By Serving Black People
1%ers: Businesses ‘Trample’ The Freedom of Billionaires By Serving Poor People
And so on and so forth

[tanyev]

24. Buddy's a little unclear on the definition of a bully campaign.

[msongs]

25. this is allowed in LBN? wow nt

[1StrongBlackMan]

26. How is me, acting as a business owner, ...

exercising my ability to serve whomever I wish, depriving anyone of anything?

[New Orleans Strong]

27. The freedom to live by dictates??

It hurts... Sigh -

[YOHABLO]

28. So the LGBT people's money is no good? Hmmm

[frylock]

29. they don’t want to hear that homosexuality is sinful behavior..

no, they don't. so shut the fuck up it about already.

[blkmusclmachine]

30. Isn't American Family Ass. a SPLC classified hate group???

[pstokely]

39. some web filters do

nt

[mike_c]

31. cause christians gotta hate....

Smith warned that businesses that agreed to display the non-discrimination sticker were complicit in taking away the rights of Christians. "If you do that, you are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience,” he insisted.

Sheesh.

[weissmam]

32. my answer to him wouldbe two words

1. Freedom of speech so stuff it
2. Bite me

[LiberalElite]

33. I'm far away from this place but I just liked

Campbell's Bakery in Fondren, MS on Facebook.

[tealMage]

34. Crybabies

Christian groups like this are the biggest crybabies. Here this should help.

[link:|

[alfredo]

35. This is an example of the mentality of those who want America to be a Christian nation.

[passiveporcupine]

36. So these business owners who want to not serve LGBT customers

Because they are sinners. Do they also not serve all other sinners? Hmmmm!!!

[PatrickforO]

37. Trample the 'freedom' of Christians?

The hypocrisy of these so-called Christians is unbelievable. They blame people who want equal rights and acceptance for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people with 'trampling their freedom to live according to the dictates of scripture.'

The problem is that if these 'Christians' are free to live 'scripturally,' it means THEY would trample the rights of others.

What's wrong with that picture?

[pstokely]

38. they want protectionist policies for bigots

nt

[truthisfreedom]

40. These so-called 'christians' pretend like they're being exposed to public sex.

The freedom to live in peace amongst your fellow humans is an active freedom. You have to protect it constantly. These so-called 'christians' believe they have the right to completely control the social environment around them. Grow up... stay home if you can't handle progress. Become Amish if you can't handle being 'christian' in the real world.