Before we all break out the crying towel for the Indians, read this. I think they are getting the last laugh.
Seminole gambling
Every Member of This Minnesota Indian Tribe Makes at Least $1 Million a Year | TheBlaze.com
You gotta do it or go to jail
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Before we all break out the crying towel for the Indians, read this. I think they are getting the last laugh.
Seminole gambling
Every Member of This Minnesota Indian Tribe Makes at Least $1 Million a Year | TheBlaze.com
So are you saying you want two wrongs to make a right?
Huh..no..if you want to claim persecution...let's be correct in who is being persecuted..
Persecution is the systematic mistreatment of an individual or group by another individual or group.
I think the whole Indian casino thing is great...there way of getting back at the white man one dollar at a time. .
I guarantee you that if these two ordained minsters were running a hardware store the city wouldn't allow them to refuse to sell items to gays, either. It's not like The Hitching Post Wedding Chapel is a religious institution, like a church, it's a place where people get married by ordained ministers using a traditional, religious ceremony, no different than getting married by Elvis in Vegas. If these two gays want that, then the two ordained ministers should provide the service, including the traditional, religious ceremony, making no compromises whatsoever, thereby making a farce out of their wedding.
Lest we forget what discrimination really is/was. I have never seen a sign, even in Mississippi, banning gay people from eating, sitting, buying a soda, etc.
Requiring a clergyman to disobey the tenets of his religion, is to my mind unethical. If gays want to marry, a JP can do the job just fine.
Requiring a clergyman to disobey the tenets of his religion, is to my mind unethical. If gays want to marry, a JP can do the job just fine.
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RLENT
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They've had a bit of a problem with that sort of thuggery down that way for quite a while now:
Its all about the votes that existing officials will get in the future-- its all about the money guys, it always has been- power,position,fame and more money...it isn't because of love for their fellow man, but that's what gets promoted,,,wake up folks, it for the votes................
In a FREE country we COULD chose to serve, or not serve, who we chose not too.
I did enjoy the fist fight, good acting.
RLENT
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In a FREE country people could do heroin or crack and commit armed robbery without legal consequence ...
In my America you do not have that right. You cannot say no blacks, jews, gays, irish, etc.
You are welcome to live in my America.
Bravo Sierra. The drugs, maybe, because the user is the only direct victim. Armed robbery? Certainly not! Even irreligious decent people reject harming others.
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RLENT
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The point was that in a civil(ized) society based on the rule of law there are limits to freedom ...
That's precisely the argument used by segregationists and racists who didn't believe black people should be treated the same as whites. [Everybody needs someone to look down on, right?]
The American people didn't buy it then, and we're not buying it now, either. In a clash between beliefs and rights, beliefs [which may or may not be based on reality] must be trumped by rights, because: the Constitution.
It's hard to give up the feeling of superiority that comes from being heterosexual, but it won't hurt you any more than conceding to women and black people hurt you.
Some things are worth conserving, but prejudice against entire groups of good people is a tradition we're better off without.