Adam Smith's bully party at chick fil a

I sometimes think of starting a quote:

"Half of Western culture was created by the gays .... and the other half by the Jews!"

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Um, *OF COURSE* this overgeneralizes and isn't strictly mathematically true (what about women and blacks and straight white christians/catholics). Yea, yea, it's meant to be a bon mot, a witticism, ok. Really though they generally have made a disproportionate contribution and that's the kernal of truth in it (and I'm not even sure what we are going to make of the ancient Greeks ... :)).

I have a hard time understanding how any holy book can be interpreted to generated hate towards anyone. Why do people care so much? Are they afraid? Are they ignorant? Hateful? Have homosexual feeling? I don't understand.

Jesus never said a word about same-sex relationships--at least nothing recorded in the New Testament*--but you wouldn't know that by listening to Cathy and his ilk.


*Though there's some speculation that he tacitly approved of a gay relationship between a centurion and his slave.

ETA: Amazon's Jeff Bezos and his wife just kicked in 2.5 million for Washington United for Marriage--a political fund-raising group dedicated to preserving the same-sex marriage law recently approved by our legislature. Let the boycotts begin! http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists...oose/MG_11.gif

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Originally Posted by JaneV2.0

According to recent reports, large numbers of voters in the Deep South still think interracial marriage should be illegal*. New-fangled ideas percolate slowly there, it would appear.


*http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/m...ssissippi.html

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I heard a story recently a black couple attending a largely white church were denied permission to get married there. According to the church "some" of the members did not want a "black" wedding taking place there.

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Originally Posted by flowerseverywhere

I have a hard time understanding how any holy book can be interpreted to generated hate towards anyone. Why do people care so much? Are they afraid? Are they ignorant? Hateful? Have homosexual feeling? I don't understand.

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Leviticus is a very interesting book in the Bible, it condemns homosexuality and is often quoted from for this reason.

Also says point blank adulterers should be put to death (and has an endless other number of don'ts), but for some reason people don't mention this part as much.


Meaning to me it's not so much the book as the interpreters generating the hate.

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Originally Posted by Alan

I shudder to think that the likes of Rahm Emanuel would use the power of his office to declare a family business unwelcome in his city due to political correctness. I think the people of Chicago and Boston deserve better representation.

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Whatever your position on the issue, I'd hardly call a business that only supports some types of families a "family business."

Or the grievous sin of wearing clothing made of two different fibers!

Leviticus is a laugh riot. If we had the Levitican version of Shariya law, we'd all have been stoned to death years ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eD52OlkKfNs

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Originally Posted by Alan

(...apparently they won't allow male employees to wear earrings on the job), but I've never seen or heard anything about actual discrimination in hiring or serving of customers. With 1500 or so stores in 40 states, you'd think there'd be a documented case of it by now. Maybe you could give us details?

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Just to clarify a social norm "Right is wrong" is what DH learned when he got his ear pierced 25 years ago. So only right earred earring wearing men should be turned down for employment at Chick-fil-a. :D But I doubt that is happening.

DH is a conservative midwestern farm boy and he was just about the last person anyone would think to get a piercing back decades ago. But in his family, it's traditional. This is what his grandfather wore. I do not know if there is a preferred ear for the Swiss earring which is a symbol of dairymen. The round thing is a scoop for the milk can.

http://tinyurl.com/d2ocuq6

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Originally Posted by ejchase

Whatever your position on the issue, I'd hardly call a business that only supports some types of families a "family business."

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I don't know what you mean by "a business that only supports some types of families". Is a private business required to support all families? If my family has a business, am I required to support you?

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Originally Posted by Iris lily

Just to clarify a social norm "Right is wrong" is what DH learned when he got his ear pierced 25 years ago. So only right earred earring wearing men should be turned down for employment at Chick-fil-a. :D But I doubt that is happening.

DH is a conservative midwestern farm boy and he was just about the last person anyone would think to get a piercing back decades ago. But in his family, it's traditional. This is what his grandfather wore. I do not know if there is a preferred ear for the Swiss earring which is a symbol of dairymen. The round thing is a scoop for the milk can.

http://tinyurl.com/d2ocuq6

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I pierced my left ear shortly after getting out of the Air Force, back in the 70's. Shortly after that I started a new career where earrings in men were frowned upon, so I let it grow over. I made my statement while I could, but I've never missed it.