Honestly I don’t care what people do in the privacy of their homes.
The mantra of a liberal. It applies to drugs, porn, abortion, queer-sex and a whole host of other liberal agendas.If you don't care what they do in the privacy of their own homes, then don't complain when they take their disgusting and perverted habits into the streets. And our schools. And don't complain when your business gets shut down by the State simply because you refused to bake a wedding cake for Adam and Steve. And it all begins at home.
No, my friend. What they do in the privacy of their own home is our business.
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I can think of something else that, as the saying goes, begins at home. You don't seem to have anything to do with that, either.
Just so you know, I (and most, if not all liberals I've interacted with) don't complain or care when people when, for example, we see a gay couple on the street, or are asked to help with a gay wedding. People's lives are theirs to live buddy, as long as they're happy and not causing any harm to others I see no problem.
Also, as an aside, if one was to hypothetically respond with something along the lines of "But exposing that to children harms them" or other such rubbish, I would just like to point out that maybe it's the paranoid brainwashing of fundie parents convincing their kids that anything outside of their little bubble is depraved and wicked that sows the seeds for trauma to develop. Perhaps if those kids were taught that some people make different choices or live differently, but are still people, and therefore nothing to be afraid of, they'd be much happier and well adjusted. Just a thought.
Oh, is anyone else seeing a sad irony in the fact that hardcore conservatives style themselves as the champions of individual liberty, and yet they're the ones that spout things like this with the most regularity?
I suspect that this jackass indulges in every kind of debauchery one can imagine-as hypocrites do-in his own house while decrying everyone else for enjoying a glass of wine, watching a skin flick or having sex that he doesn't approve of. He complains about others & insists that it's his business, but screams about the government watching him & plotting to take away his guns & bibles.
Just when I thought conservatives couldn't possibly get any stupider.
And their business means profits for others .
But if the likes of you - who think that what others do affects you personally - think you can pick & choose your customers, you go right ahead.
'Pride' doesn't pay the bills, you know. Well, it does for those of alternative lifestyles, and the now majority of we straights who have no problem with LGBT people.
Does a bank manager care where a business's money comes from? Just ask Pepsico's shareholders...!
If you don't care what they do in the privacy of their own homes, then don't complain when they take their disgusting and perverted habits into the streets. And our schools.
Funny, it's the right wingnutters that do the complaining.
And don't complain when your business gets shut down by the State simply because you refused to bake a wedding cake for Adam and Steve.
Unless of course when it's against the law in your state to refuse public accommodation by refusing said cake to said couple for said event when you would offer to bake for the same type of event to Ralph and Alice. Even at that, the state wouldn't shut said bakery down, they would just fine the business.
I've actually heard this quite a few times. Strangely, it seems to come from the exact same people who decry "Big Government" and regulations and government overreach. It's the same people who worry that Obama is coming to take their guns. The same people who thought the 2010 census was an intrusive Obama-specific dragnet to monitor Christians. The same people who, as in this example, think businesses should have the right to discriminate against minorities without government intervention.
They decide that the private lives of the "drugs, porn, abortion, queer-sex" crowd must be monitored, policed and controlled at all times... but any kind of vague interaction they themselves have with the government must be tyranny and proof of encroaching fascism. And they think that's a reasonable, coherent worldview! Weird.
This is the reason I don't understand the argument 'privacy of their own homes' for homosexuality, because that argument doesn't support stuff like gay marriage, or gay adoption, or usage of public bathrooms by transgendered individuals - it supports closet gay people, having sex with their same-sex partners privately away from the public view. Gay marriage, or gay adoption, is almost by definition a social act, a public act in which the society is involved in one way or the other - a marriage is to be recognised by the society as a commitment of togetherness, and adoption of course involves the agency and the child to be adopted itself.
Therefore, perhaps we who support the rights of gay people to be gay in public life (as opposed to closeted, self-loathing sad people pretending to be straight before the society) should stop using the 'privacy of their homes' argument and judge the act on its own merits. There is much, much more to married life than sex, whether heterosexual or homosexual, and that is a part of one's social life. The 'privacy' argument justifies Josh Duggar, or any one of those people who were happily married in public but hired male prostitutes in private - not gay people who wish to have their gay nature be a part of the society.
Honestly I don’t care what believers do in the privacy of their homes.
Why? Why is it your business?
Would you like it if I came into your home and criticized your life? Told you how wrong some of the repressed bullshit you do is? Told you how to properly store your firearms? Took everything out of your house I found offensive (or tasteless)?
No? Then next time the 2 brain cells you have click together, please don't vocalize it.
What they do in the privacy of their own home is our business.
So then, you'll be OK with the government intruding into your privacy? Oh right, only people you disagree with deserve that.
How about we come into your house and take out all your guns, because, as you say, they actually do show up out on the streets, in public, and in our schools and actually harm or kill people? I'm more concerned with getting gunned down in public by some unhinged gun-owning nutjob than I am two guys kissing.
"If you don't care what they do in the privacy of their own homes, then don't complain when they take their disgusting and perverted habits into the streets."
I could point out that one's own home is not a public street. For instance, I don't enjoy watching people eat each other's face off in public (sometimes it's hard to ignore), whether gay or straight, but whatever they do in private... well, why should I care?
I'll bet money this sad clown doesn't like the NSA domestic surveillance thing a bit. It's only acceptable when done to people he/she doesn't approve of. Quite typical view of civil rights, fundy style. And, I love to cook, but I don't really bake much. Maybe Adam and Steve could come over for some homemade beef Stroganoff, or duck l'orange? Would that spare my business?
If what consenting adults do privately actually is our business, then I think my sincerely held belief that hetersoxuality is evil entitles me to bully and mock you and tell you to "keep heterosexuality out of our schools and public places". After all, I find such behavior disgusting and depraved, and what you do in private IS my business.
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