Crime to NOT love gays

[DrLeftover]

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Call it what you want -- anti-gay or religious rights -- but if Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signs a controversial bill, you might not be calling Arizona the home of the 2015 Super Bowl.

The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, S.B. 1062, is the current controversy du jour out of Arizona, and the National Football League is with the opposition.

“Our policies emphasize tolerance and inclusiveness and prohibit discrimination based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation or any other improper standard,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello told USA Today. “We are following the issue in Arizona and will continue to do so should the bill be signed into law, but will decline further comment at this time.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/nfl-could-pull-super-bowl-if-arizona-religious-rights-bill-passes/article/2544606

 

[WHO IS SERAFIN]

This bill is basically the same as federal law. And 18 other states have a very similar law as Arizona's bill. Jan Brewer just showed she is another wishy washy republican that collapses her principles when pressure hits.

Personally I would much rather have a business have the right to serve who they wish. If a business does not want to serve whites, blacks, spanish, tall, short, skinny, fat or a one eyed purple hat eater it should be there business and no one else's. Does not mean I would agree with there opinions but it sure would be better to know where to spend my money in a open and free society. Which we no longer have.

 

[DrLeftover]

I believe the saying goes:

"Money Talks, Bullshit gets you elected to public office"

 

[DrLeftover]

MARCH 1, 2014

BOSTON — South Boston’s St. Patrick’s Day parade, the second-largest in the country after New York’s, could be on the verge of a historic breakthrough — the participation of a gay advocacy group that had been banned from the parade for two decades.

Details were still being worked out on Saturday, but Mayor Martin J. Walsh, who had threatened to boycott the parade if gay groups were excluded, said in a statement that he was “optimistic that a solution can be reached.” And Philip J. Wuschke Jr., the parade’s organizer, said in an interview, “It will happen.”

But the gay advocacy group, MassEquality, was balking at a proviso in the terms of a tentative deal. The organizers had said that the gay group could march under its organization’s banner, but only if its members did not wear T-shirts or carry placards that identified their sexual orientation.

MassEquality said in a statement that it would participate only if lesbian, gay, transgender and bisexual people could march openly.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/02/us/parade-deal-would-allow-gays-to-march.html?_r=0


Nobody seems to have asked how Saint Patrick himself would feel about the group being in the parade on his feast day.

 

[DrLeftover]

The guy who had the gall to express his First Amendment rights and favor Prop 8 in California by donating $1,000 has just been scalped by some gay activists. After an OKCupid decision to boycott Mozilla, the recently appointed Brendan Eich just resigned under pressure:

In a post at Mozilla’s official blog, executive chairwoman Mitchell Baker confirmed the news with an unequivocal apology on the company’s behalf. “Mozilla prides itself on being held to a different standard and, this past week, we didn’t live up to it,” Baker wrote. “We didn’t act like you’d expect Mozilla to act. We didn’t move fast enough to engage with people once the controversy started. We’re sorry. We must do better.”

The action comes days after dating site OKCupid became the most vocal opponent of Eich’s hiring. Mozilla offered repeated statements about LGBT inclusivity within the company over the past two weeks, but those never came with a specific response from Eich about his thousands of dollars of donations in support of Proposition 8, a California ballot measure that sought to ban gay marriage in the state.

Will he now be forced to walk through the streets in shame? Why not the stocks? The whole episode disgusts me – as it should disgust anyone interested in a tolerant and diverse society. If this is the gay rights movement today – hounding our opponents with a fanaticism more like the religious right than anyone else – then count me out. If we are about intimidating the free speech of others, we are no better than the anti-gay bullies who came before us.

http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/04/03/the-hounding-of-brendan-eich/

 

[DrLeftover]

May 7, 2014

After the group Right Wing Watch reported the twins who star in HGTV’s recently greenlit reality series Flip It Forward are anti-gay activists, the network said this morning it had given the hook to the series, which was set to debut in October. Yesterday, HGTV said it was “currently in the process of reviewing all information about the Benhams and we will provide an update as soon as possible.” Then came a tweet today:

HGTV
HGTV has decided not to move forward with the Benham Brothers' series.

Right Wing Watch reported Tuesday that David Benham had led a prayer rally outside of the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, NC in 2012, in which he told conservative radio host Janet Mefferd that America’s Christian majority must repent for tolerating “homosexuality and its agenda that is attacking the nation” and “demonic ideologies tak[ing] our universities and our public school systems.” He also said his brother had joined him in the prayer protest. The group also claimed David leads protests outside of abortion clinics.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/hgtv-pulls-new-home-flipping-series-after-report-emerges-identifying-its-stars-as-anti-gay-activists/

 

[DrLeftover]

Exclusive: SunTrust Cuts Business Ties With Benham Brothers After Conservative Views Attacked
11:04 AM 05/16/2014

First they lost their television show. Now the Benham brothers say they are losing their business.

SunTrust Banks is cutting ties with would-be reality stars David and Jason Benham after liberal activists attacked them for their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage, The Daily Caller has learned.

In a statement provided first to TheDC on Friday, the Benham brothers confirmed that SunTrust Banks has pulled all of its listed properties with the Benham brothers’ bank-owned property business, which includes several franchisees across four states.

The move comes just a week after HGTV announced it was canceling a planned home renovation show hosted by the brothers.

“If our faith costs us our HGTV show and our business, then so be it,” said Jason Benham on Friday.

“We were caught off-guard with this one,” David Benham said of SunTrust’s actions. “Keeping us off television wasn’t enough, now this agenda to silence wants us out of the marketplace.”

The Benhams, in their statement, said the news came “without warning or explanation from SunTrust and took place over a 15 minute period” on Thursday. The Brothers said they have had a “mutually productive working relationship with SunTrust for many years” and hold a ”preferred broker” status with the bank.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/exclusive-suntrust-cuts-business-ties-with-benham-brothers-after-conservative-views-attacked/#ixzz31tOSY1v3

 

[DrLeftover]

Oh, Not So Fast

SunTrust Reverses Decision On Conservative Benham Brothers

16 May

After an uproar from conservative customers, SunTrust Banks announced Friday afternoon that the decision to end its relationship with real estate entrepreneurs David and Jason Benham had been reversed.

Earlier Friday, The Daily Caller reported that SunTrust Banks had pulled all of its listed properties with the Benham brothers’ bank-owned property business.

The move came just a week after HGTV announced it was canceling a planned home renovation show hosted by the Benhams because of their conservative views on abortion and gay marriage.

By Friday afternoon, SunTrust released a statement saying the decision had been reversed. The bank didn’t go into detail about why they originally cut ties with the Benham brothers, though SunTrust said the decision was made by a third party vendor. TheDC reported earlier Friday that the vendor had told a Benham Brothers franchisee that the bank itself made the decision.

“We clarified our policies with our vendor and they have reinstated the listings with Benham Real Estate,” SunTrust spokeswoman Beth McKenna said.

“Mid-2013, we consolidated the management of certain residential assets with a third party vendor, which has the relationship with Benham Real Estate,” McKenna added. “While we do not publicly comment on specific vendor relationships, we don’t make choices on suppliers nor base business decisions on political factors, nor do we direct our third party vendors to do so.”

Added McKenna: “SunTrust supports the rights of all Americans to fully exercise their freedoms granted under the Constitution, including those with respect to free speech and freedom of religion.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/05/16/suntrust-reverses-decision-on-conservative-benham-brothers/#ixzz31yQ1YXKM

 

[DrLeftover]

Cop Refuses To Work At Gay Pride Parade In Utah
7 June

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A Salt Lake City police officer has been placed on leave after refusing an assignment to work at a gay pride parade.

The officer was among about 30 officers assigned to provide traffic control and security for the annual Utah Pride Parade on Sunday in Salt Lake City, said department spokeswoman Lara Jones.

“We don’t tolerate bias and bigotry in the department, and assignments are assignments … To allow personal opinion to enter into whether an officer will take a post is not something that can be tolerated in a police department,” Jones told KSL.

She declined comment on the officer’s reason for refusing the assignment.

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2014/06/07/cop-refuses-to-work-at-gay-pride-parade-in-utah/

 

[DrLeftover]

Apparently, your "law makers" think they can.

20 June

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A year after the Supreme Court struck down a law barring federal recognition of gay marriages, the Obama administration granted an array of new benefits Friday to same-sex couples, including those who live in states where gay marriage is against the law.

The new measures range from Social Security and veterans benefits to work leave for caring for sick spouses. They are part of President Barack Obama's efforts to expand whatever protections he can offer to gays and lesbians even though more than half of the states don't recognize gay marriage. That effort has been confounded by laws that say some benefits should be conferred only to couples whose marriages are recognized by the states where they live, rather than the states where they were married.

Aiming to circumvent that issue, the Veterans Affairs Department will start letting gay people who tell the government they are married to a veteran to be buried alongside them in a national cemetery, drawing on the VA's authority to waive the usual marriage requirement.

http://www.aol.com/article/2014/06/20/obama-expands-government-benefits-for-gay-couples/20917042/

 

[DrLeftover]

Gays now raising hell over Supreme Court "hobby lobby" decision.

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The most immediate question raised by Hobby Lobby is whether the decision can be used to deny other medical treatments that conflict with an employer’s religious belief. Jenny Pizer, law and policy director at Lambda Legal, a gay-rights group, says that while Justice Alito dismissed the possibility the ruling could be used to deny coverage for vaccinations or blood transfusions, the Court provided no guidelines for determining which religious objections to medical treatments were valid and which are not. “We don’t have a principled framework that tells us why a business owners’ objection to a particular contraceptive should get this treatment and why it would be a different result if the objection was to sterilization,” Pizer says.

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Another hypothetical that comes up frequently in discussions about gay rights and religious liberty is the “wedding vendor” scenario: A Christian florist or baker is asked to provide services for a gay wedding and refuses, running afoul of a local or state anti-discrimination law. This was precisely the set of circumstances in Elane Photography v. Willock, a case in New Mexico involving a photographer who declined to provide her services at a same-sex ceremony. A district court judge ruled last year that the wedding vendor violated the state’s Human Rights Act.

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/03/hobby_lobbys_gay_mystery_did_scotus_just_grant_an_anti_lgbt_loophole/

 

[TommyTooter]

Gays now raising hell over Supreme Court "hobby lobby" decision.

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The most immediate question raised by Hobby Lobby is whether the decision can be used to deny other medical treatments that conflict with an employer’s religious belief. Jenny Pizer, law and policy director at Lambda Legal, a gay-rights group, says that while Justice Alito dismissed the possibility the ruling could be used to deny coverage for vaccinations or blood transfusions, the Court provided no guidelines for determining which religious objections to medical treatments were valid and which are not. “We don’t have a principled framework that tells us why a business owners’ objection to a particular contraceptive should get this treatment and why it would be a different result if the objection was to sterilization,” Pizer says.

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Another hypothetical that comes up frequently in discussions about gay rights and religious liberty is the “wedding vendor” scenario: A Christian florist or baker is asked to provide services for a gay wedding and refuses, running afoul of a local or state anti-discrimination law. This was precisely the set of circumstances in Elane Photography v. Willock, a case in New Mexico involving a photographer who declined to provide her services at a same-sex ceremony. A district court judge ruled last year that the wedding vendor violated the state’s Human Rights Act.

http://www.salon.com/2014/07/03/hobby_lobbys_gay_mystery_did_scotus_just_grant_an_anti_lgbt_loophole/

don't you see any hypocrisy in hobby lobby's policy denying birth control to women while covering viagra for the men getting them pregnant and buying merchandise from a country (china) purported to perform several hundred million abortions annually?

it seems to me the court set a very dangerous precedent by mandating a corporation's right to impose their religious belief systems (BS) on their employees. the government can't do it. why should a privately held corporation be allowed to do so??

 

[DrLeftover]

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ISIS throwing two gays to their death from a high building as a sharia law punishment for their homosexuality.
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http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/201...g-squads-to-single-out-gay-men-for-execution/

 

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This bill is basically the same as federal law. And 18 other states have a very similar law as Arizona's bill. Jan Brewer just showed she is another wishy washy republican that collapses her principles when pressure hits.

Personally I would much rather have a business have the right to serve who they wish. If a business does not want to serve whites, blacks, spanish, tall, short, skinny, fat or a one eyed purple hat eater it should be there business and no one else's. Does not mean I would agree with there opinions but it sure would be better to know where to spend my money in a open and free society. Which we no longer have.

i agree...