Quote:That an easy answer and it differs depending on what side of the aisle you are on. If you are on the left, freedom against discrimination trumps all. If you are on the right, religious freedoms to discriminate trumps all others. 

 

It's very simple and not about race, IMO. You vilify all forms of discrimination and do not allow it to even be an option. If you want to function in our society you should be willing to, at least while conducting business, not discriminate for any reason. Let's be honest, these bills are not about freedom. They are about pandering to a very specific base. A base that does not want to accept the progression of our society, that wants to turn back the time. There are plenty of societal ideals we vilify around the world such as the oppression of free speech and religion and women in the Arab world or the ideals of the communist nations. It strikes me as quite hypocritical to condemn those groups or nations for their beliefs (which are overwhelmingly agreed by Americans to be backwards and oppressive) while at the same time openly supporting the oppression of our fellow Americans.

 

It's the old tolerance line, you would have me tolerate that which I find intolerable but you will not tolerate that which you find intolerable. The truth is that this is and always has been about private property rights. The idea that a non-owner has a right to something (a business, a service, a location, etc.) that is privately owned by someone else is the essential core of leftist philosophy reduced to its most basic pioint; that the individual does not own himself, he is the property of the state or community.

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