I have reached my limit with these Conservative, right wing idiots.
At this point, 19 states have passed what they call "religious freedom" legislation. Basically this is legal backing for discrimination. Businesses in those states have the right to refuse service to anyone based on their own religious beliefs. The biggest target is the LGBT community and same sex marriages. This means someone can refuse to photograph or serve a same sex couple. Though based on the wording it does not have to be a marriage. A same sex couple can simply walk into a restaurant together and be denied service.
WTF is wrong with this country?!!
Crap, I'm straight and so completely against this legalization of hate crimes that it makes me sick.
Wikipedia defines a hate crime as "Hate crime laws in the United States protect against hate crimes (also known as bias crimes) motivated by enmity or animus against a protected class. Although state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's protected characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability."
With this definition, these very laws are crimes. It is a federal crime to refuse service or employment based on the exact same definition as those listed as victims of hate crimes!
Based on this, I think the politicians passing these laws, along with anyone who pleads protection against discrimination should be charged as criminals. And not on some misdemeanor charge, either.
Instead, they should be charged with terrorism, conspiring to commit a criminal act and treason. One does not have to physically engage in violence to be charge with these crimes. They have put in place the conditions which enable criminal activity and rioting. All it takes is one riot anywhere in this country and every single politician that voted these acts into law can be charged with inciting a riot. By legal definition, this only requires a physical conflict involving three people.
Considering the fact that this places the public welfare at risk, this brings in the terrorism charge. Considering that public unrest is dangerous to the security of this country, that brings in the treason charge.
So, do these laws protect everyone who refuses service or employment and claim it is against their religion?
Can a Jewish, Islamic, Wiccan or Satanist refuse service or employment to anyone openly Christian?
Can the same business refuse to employ or give service to a person based on their race and claim it is against their religion?
How about gender?
Can they refuse service to anyone physically deformed or developmentally disabled?
Some religions believe that mental illness is a judgement from God. So, can someone suffering mental illness be denied service or employment? Then define mental illness. Does depression or bipolar disorder count? How about ADD?
I am going to copy this later and send it to the President and the ACLU, the NAACP and several women's rights groups. This may start as one thing targeting one group but is milliseconds from being turned into something much, much larger, taking this country backward by decades, if not centuries.
At this point, 19 states have passed what they call "religious freedom" legislation. Basically this is legal backing for discrimination. Businesses in those states have the right to refuse service to anyone based on their own religious beliefs. The biggest target is the LGBT community and same sex marriages. This means someone can refuse to photograph or serve a same sex couple. Though based on the wording it does not have to be a marriage. A same sex couple can simply walk into a restaurant together and be denied service.
WTF is wrong with this country?!!
Crap, I'm straight and so completely against this legalization of hate crimes that it makes me sick.
Wikipedia defines a hate crime as "Hate crime laws in the United States protect against hate crimes (also known as bias crimes) motivated by enmity or animus against a protected class. Although state laws vary, current statutes permit federal prosecution of hate crimes committed on the basis of a person's protected characteristics of race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability."
With this definition, these very laws are crimes. It is a federal crime to refuse service or employment based on the exact same definition as those listed as victims of hate crimes!
Based on this, I think the politicians passing these laws, along with anyone who pleads protection against discrimination should be charged as criminals. And not on some misdemeanor charge, either.
Instead, they should be charged with terrorism, conspiring to commit a criminal act and treason. One does not have to physically engage in violence to be charge with these crimes. They have put in place the conditions which enable criminal activity and rioting. All it takes is one riot anywhere in this country and every single politician that voted these acts into law can be charged with inciting a riot. By legal definition, this only requires a physical conflict involving three people.
Considering the fact that this places the public welfare at risk, this brings in the terrorism charge. Considering that public unrest is dangerous to the security of this country, that brings in the treason charge.
So, do these laws protect everyone who refuses service or employment and claim it is against their religion?
Can a Jewish, Islamic, Wiccan or Satanist refuse service or employment to anyone openly Christian?
Can the same business refuse to employ or give service to a person based on their race and claim it is against their religion?
How about gender?
Can they refuse service to anyone physically deformed or developmentally disabled?
Some religions believe that mental illness is a judgement from God. So, can someone suffering mental illness be denied service or employment? Then define mental illness. Does depression or bipolar disorder count? How about ADD?
I am going to copy this later and send it to the President and the ACLU, the NAACP and several women's rights groups. This may start as one thing targeting one group but is milliseconds from being turned into something much, much larger, taking this country backward by decades, if not centuries.
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