Jennifer Mesko #fundie

Jennifer Mesko #fundie citizenlink.org

[A new radio ad being played by Focus on The Family, about a new Colorado law allowing transgendered people to use the restroom of their choice.]

"Supporters claim the bill will prevent discrimination; in reality, the bill endangers religious freedom by opening the door for the state to punish any person or organization — including small and home-based businesses — that refuses, for religious or other moral reasons, to offer or sell goods or services to homosexuals, bisexuals, 'transgendered' and transsexual individuals."

[Listen to the ad, it's especially hateful & fundie...]

[link]http://focusfamaction.edgeboss.net/download/focusfamaction/citizenlink_audio/05-21-08_sb200.mp3[/link]

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old comment by Allegory for Jesus

"endangers religious freedom by opening the door for the state to punish any person or organization including small and home-based businesses that refuses, for religious or other moral reasons, to offer or sell goods or services to homosexuals, bisexuals, 'transgendered' and transsexual individuals."

Why is it that "religious freedom" sounds basically like "freedom to be an absolute douche"? If you are refusing to sell goods to gays and transgendered individuals for "moral reasons" (LOL self-righteous prick), you should also be refusing to sell goods to murderers, thieves, liars, Sabbath workers, shrimp eaters, parent disrespecters, people of other religions, and, seeing as how we are all sinners according to your holy book, EVERYONE! You are a hypocrite of the highest caliber if you think that you justified in discriminating against homosexuals by your holy book, when most of what is in your holy book speaks out against being so judgmental! But, apparently the Old Testament takes precedence over the New Testament when it suits your argument, eh.

Please DIAF.

old comment by Crazy Fundie

That quote wasn’t in the audio I heard. In the submitter’s defense, however, the content of that commercial was actually even more hateful and stupid than this quote would suppose.

The conflation of "trasngender person" with "predator" was especially odious - particularly when the audio talked about a man in the girl's bathroom at a school.

In every public school I know of, faculty have their own bathrooms, and the public isn't permitted to roam the halls and use the students' restrooms (regardless of gender). The idea that a girl would find a man in the bathroom, who is there legally and can't be removed for trespassing, is simply preposterous.

old comment by KatAutumn

I get so tired of this reaction to states legalizing same-sex unions. I had some dillhole on CF yesterday trying to claim that preachers in the US have already been sued for refusal to marry same-sex couples. That's a load of bunk. No preacher has ever been arrested on charges of "hate speech" because he preached that homosexuality is a sin. Preachers will not be sued for not marrying same-sex couples.

That's why we have the separation of Church and State. Keep your churches out of the State and the State doesn't interfere with your churches.

In terms of providing goods and services to gays and lesbians, what's the problem? I had a man come by our office back when we owned our own company. He was selling ads for the Atlanta Gay Pages. He said that he and his partner of twelve years went to have a deck built off the side of their house and when the contractors came out to give them an estimate, the two men were there together. He gave them the estimate, left and two weeks later they hadn't heard back from the builders. He called them up and the man told them his crew wasn't comfortable coming to work on a "fag's house". So disgusting.

old comment by BeemerRefugee1990

I went to high school in a conservative small town in New England, between 1989 and 1993. During Homecoming week, we'd have Spirit Days, one of which was 'Costume Day.' Most people used this is a test-run for their Halloween ideas, but there were always some clowns among the male half of the student body who came to school in drag. One of them once even asked to borrow a wig I'd used during the previous year's Costume Day. (I have two X chromos, JOBTW.)

The morning announcements always included "Boys dressing in drag today must still use the men's restrooms." They did, nobody raised a stink about it, next day was School Colors Day/Senior Hat & Shades Day, and everyone went back to 'normal.'

And I know we had fundie Christians at our school, one of them was my best friend! I told her about fifteen years ago that one of the things I valued most about her friendship was that she accepted that I'm an Easter-and-Christmas Catholic, and never tried to change me.

Were some of the boys dressing 'in drag' because it was the only day they got to get away with it, without worrying about the consequences? I don't know, it was none of my beeswax! I had enough of my own problems, please. And none of them were really 'in drag,' in the proper sense, they were just guys wearing dresses.

I studied the Bibble as "a work of literature" two years in English class, Mr. M. sent home consent slips, i never heard of anyone's parents saying anything.

Huh, guess maybe that "small town in New England" wasn't as conservatard as I thought it was! They were quite quick to jump on the kid who showed up in full KKK regalia that one time, before the rest of his classmates could rip his balls off.

Jennifer Mesko #fundie citizenlink.org

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