In The Age of _____: South Dakota Is First In Hate Legislation For 2017

You know, with a Hater in the Oval Office, it’s much easier now for others who hate to pass laws enabling hatred.

Take South Dakota .... please.

The state’s Republican ... because, of course ... Governor, Dennis Daugaard, just signed a "religious freedom" adoption bill—SB 149—which allows taxpayer-funded adoption and foster care agencies to refuse services to LGBT people if it would violate their sincerely held religious beliefs because, you know, God and Jesus are all about Hate. And let’s be completely queer about this, this new law will also allow discrimination against single parents, interracial couples, non-Christians and others. 

And, in signing this into law, Daugaard has made South Dakota the first state to enact anti-LGBT legislation in 2017.

Y’all should be so proud.

For his part, the Big Bigot in the statehouse, Dennis Daugaard said he was “concerned private child-placement agencies acting in the best interest of a child could be subject to a lawsuit when denying placement to someone in a "protected class," such as members of the LGBT community."  

Yes, because it’s in the best interests of the child in foster care or in an adoption agency to limit the number of loving parents willing to take them in; that’s real love, y’all.

♫ ♪Jesus loves me, this I know ♪ ♫... unless I’m gay and want to adopt or foster a child.

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Good News Friday: US District Judge Kills Mississippi's Hate Bill

So, last Spring, Mississippi legislators and its governor voted for, and signed into law, one of those Religious Freedom Bills, AKA It’s Okay To Hate The Gays Because God Hates Fags … It Says So In The Bible bills.

The bill would allow private business owners, such as caterers, bridal shops, bakeries, dress shops and other state officials, such as public school counselors, to refuse marriage-related services to LGBT Mississippians.

But wait! Seconds before the law became law, U.S. District Court Judge Carlton Reeves literally killed it in a ruling that compared the bill directly to the state’s segregationist past, and saying the legislature was trying to write discrimination into law:

"Religious freedom was one of the building blocks of this great nation, and after the nation was torn apart, the guarantee of equal protection under law was used to stitch it back together. But HB 1523 does not honor that tradition of religious freedom, nor does it respect the equal dignity of all of Mississippi’s citizens."

Naturally, opponents of the law are rejoicing this weekend, while supporters cried out that the bill had nothing to do with discrimination, but was passed to protect their religious freedoms; freedoms which have never been threatened, mind you.

In Mississippi, and everywhere in this country, you can believe whatever you choose — I, for one, believe the universe is run by my cat Tuxedo — but you cannot, cannot, use your faith to deny goods and services to people.

But HB 1523 singled out three "sincerely held" religious beliefs as worthy of protection:

that marriage is between one man and one woman;

that people should not have sex outside such marriages;

that a person’s gender is set at birth.

In addition, the law protects from litigation anyone who speaks out against gay marriage or transgender individuals because of these beliefs.  So, yeah, that whole “it’s not at all about discrimination” line is just a lie; it’s about using religion to tell people what to do.

Religion is not a weapon.

Supporters are hoping that Reeve’s decision is appealed to the fifth circuit, but Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood has not said whether he’ll take that on.

But let’s end with a cheer for Judge Reeves, for this ruling was the second time this week he ruled against HB 1523. In a separate decision last Monday, he struck down the part of the law that allowed clerks to recuse themselves from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, and now this latest ruling invalidates every single bit of the Hate Bill by arguing that it violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment which prohibit government from favoring one religion over another and one group of citizens over another.

It’s that simple. Maybe now Mississippi will get it?

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First, the Good News … the Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee voted down Senate Joint Resolution [SJR 39] — a bill to legalize state-sanctioned anti-LGBT discrimination by allowing individuals, organizations, and businesses to use religion as a weapon … as God intended it, you know.

But, SJR 39 went beyond protecting the rights of the religious; for example, under SJR 39, taxpayer-funded foster care providers and adoption agencies could refuse to place children with same-sex couples; taxpayer-funded homeless shelters could turn away LGBT couples and their families; and businesses could refuse to provide goods or services to same-sex couples.

Now the Bad News … while SJR 39 has been defeated, Missouri still lacks explicit, statewide non-discrimination protections for LGBT people meaning we can be denied housing and employment and some services  just for being gay.

More “woman troubles” for [t]Rump … Barbara Res, the woman who headed up the construction of Trump Tower in New York is Team Clinton. Res, who worked for Trump for nearly twenty years, now says:

"I'm a Hillary gal. ... What won't go away is that the people that don't like Trump really don't like him. He's got a lot of supporters but he's got more, more, more detractors and I don't think — he's never been in politics before. He has no executive experience. I mean, his candidacy is unheard of. It's testimony to his being able to promote himself that he’s gotten as far as he has."

Cue the [t]Rump announcement that Res is a loser and ugly and a fat pig in five … four … three …

North Carolina continues to go bigoted and anti-trans … the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education has adopted a policy to allow high school students to carry pepper spray in school, and, according to one board member, Chuck Hughes, it may be useful for students who encounter transgender classmates in the bathroom.

Yes, students will be pepper-spraying in the bathrooms and yet it’s the trans folk we’re supposed to fear.

Penny Dreadful returned to Showtime last week and introduced Dr, Jekyll into the mix … which includes Dr. Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Dracula and a werewolf, along with assorted witches and demons. Jekyll — who has yet to transform into Mr. Hyde — is played by the delicious Shazad Latif, left.

And over on Empire — which has become almost comical and bad 1980s soap opera in its storytelling this season— we met Derek Major, a potential new gay love interest for Jamal. Derek is played by the hothothot Tobias Truvillion, right, and his first make-out scene with Jussie Smollett was rather steamy.

Just sayin’.

[t]Rump is refusing to release his tax returns, claiming an audit makes it impossible for him to do so.

Is it the audit? Or, is it as I believe, that we’ll learn [t]Rump—like Mittsy Romney before him—also pays less than a schoolteachers in taxes or that we’ll finally have proof that [t]Rump is nowhere near as rich as he claims?

Uh huh.

PS: In 2008, then Senator Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton released six years worth of returns while John McCain released two.

What’s good for the goose is good for the lying “billionaire.”

In the Sick To My Stomach File … George Zimmerman who murdered 17-year-old Trayvon Martin in cold blood and was subsequently acquitted of the crime because “Young Black Man In A Hoodie” is auctioning off the 9-millimeter pistol he used to kill Martin.

Yup, he’s selling a murder weapon or, as he calls it, “an American Firearm Icon." Zimmerman says the proceeds will be used to “fight [Black Lives Matter] violence against Law Enforcement officers” and to “ensure the demise of Angela Correy’s persecution career and Hillary Clinton’s anti-firearm rhetoric,” though he hasn’t expounded upon how.

See America, this is what happens when murderers get off.

Following weeks of protests and boycotts over its policy of allowing transgender customers to choose the bathroom they wish to use, Target Corp. chief executive Brian Cornell says the stores will remain trans friendly and that the company will add more family restrooms in its stores.

“We want to make sure we provide a welcoming environment for all of our guests. One that is safe, one that is comfortable. We took a stance. We’re going to continue to embrace our belief in diversity and inclusion, just how important that is to our company. But we’re also going to make sure our focus on safety is unwavering.”

Stand tall, Target, and know this: you are not alone.

This week Starbucks, Hudson's Bay Co. — parent company to Lord & Taylor and Saks Fifth Avenue — and Barnes & Noble have announced that employees and customers in their stores are welcome to use the bathroom of the gender with which they identify.

Starbucks spokeswoman Jaime Riley: 

“[We are] looking into additional opportunities to have more gender-neutral signage in our restrooms where jurisdictions allow it."

Hudson's Bay Co. spokeswoman Tiffany Bourré: 

"HBC respects and affirms each person’s right to self-identify and access facilities that reflect their gender identity."

Barnes & Noble spokeswoman Mary Ellen Keating: 

“As a company, Barnes & Noble treats all employees and customers with dignity and respect. For our transgender employees and customers, that means that they are allowed to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with."

Sears Holdings, which operates Sears and Kmart stores, did not directly address the issue of bathroom use, but expressed support for customer rights in general. But other retailers and businesses — including Wal-Mart, Macy's, Whole Foods and Simon Property Group — have not responded to the issue at all.

But there is hope ... PS How much do I love that South Carolina is in the "failed Bathroom Bill" category!

Vacation Post: Hate Bills Are Springing Up Everwhere

Well, it’s been almost a year since the Supreme Court ruled in favor of same-sex marriage and for anyone who thought we’d be seeing the light at the end of the tunnel for our Civil Rights needs to think again.

Since that historic ruling, we have seen a backlash against the LGBT in neatly half of the country:

A new law in Mississippi lets any person or any business deny services to same-sex couples because of so-called “religious objections.”

In North Carolina, Governor McCrory signed a law banning any city in the state from passing LGBT anti-discrimination ordinances and barring transgender people from using bathrooms that match their gender identity.

In Tennessee, they also have a “bathroom bill,” plus a bill that lets mental health professionals refuse to treat LGBT patients.

But that’s not all, not by a longshot; there are more than 100 active bills like those in 22 states around the country and they all fall into a handful of categories—mostly being discriminatory to the LGBT community: some are bathroom bills, some let judges refuse to marry same-sex couples, some let businesses deny services to LGBT people.

And it’s all a reaction from the so-called “Christian” conservatives and the GOP in response to that step toward equality we made last year. But some of their efforts have failed spectacularly.

In 2014, facing outcry from the business community, Arizona’s then-Governor Jan Brewer — a Republican — vetoed a bill that would have let businesses cite their religious beliefs to deny services to LGBT customers.

In 2015, Indiana Governor Mike Pence — a Republican — got hammered by the media and the business community after signing a law that allowed businesses to discriminate against LGBT people; he then signed an “amended “ version that scaled back the provisions in the original.

And that’s the way we’ll fight these upcoming proposed laws throughout the country: with our dollars and the dollars of the LGBT allies in business. When companies based in states with these anti-LGBT bills, and big corporations with hubs in those states, begin stepping forward with threats to close up shop, to cease expansion in these areas, the economy of those states will suffer and, when that happens, laws will change.

But anti-LGBT activists have a blueprint of their own to follow, one they base on the same tactics used in the anti-abortion movement. The minute the Supreme Court ruled for marriage equality, Frank Schubert, the strategist behind California’s Proposition 8, and National Organization for Marriage [NOM] president Brian Brown began a strategy of trying to erode LGBT rights through fear and fear of religious liberties being eroded … though that has never happened.

Yet that’s the tactic they used in Houston last year, and it worked. The city was weighing an LGBT anti-discrimination measure, the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance or HERO, and it was expected to pass. Houston had a lesbian mayor — Annise Parker — and an anti-discrimination ordinance already in place, but religious conservatives overwhelmingly defeated it by running TV ads that demonized trans women and suggested the ordinance would allow male sex predators into women’s rest rooms. When HERO went down, conservatives saw a strategy that worked, and soon these “bathroom bills” and “religious freedom” bills began popping up everywhere, though mostly in the very religious South.

Here are some of the bills being proposed around the country:

Religious Freedom Restoration Acts – Conservatives are putting forward state-level RFRAs to let people claim religious liberty as a reason to deny services to LGBT people. That means an evangelical Christian baker can refuse to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding; or the photographer can refuse to provide services to a gay couple based on his or her perceived religious objections; and if that’s not bad enough, some of these bills are so broadly written they can be interpreted as a means to allow discrimination against single mothers, interfaith couples and interracial couples. Eight states have active RFRA bills: Colorado, Hawaii, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina and Oklahoma.

First Amendment Defense Acts [FADA] … allow any person, business or taxpayer-funded organization to ignore any law that conflicts with their religious beliefs about marriage. But these not only discriminate against LGBT people, but can extend to single mothers and anybody with a sexual relationship outside of marriage. Three states have active FADA bills: Hawaii, Illinois and Oklahoma.

Pastor Protection Acts … allow churches to refuse to perform marriages that conflict with their religious beliefs, even though the First Amendment already covers this right. There are Pastor Protection Acts in fourteen states: Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Government-officials-using-your-taxpayer-funds-against-you bills … allow judges and clerks to refuse to perform same-sex marriages or issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples; four states have active bills like this: Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi and South Carolina.

No-wedding-cake-for-non-straight-non-white-heathens bills … allow businesses to refuse to provide goods or services related to marriages that conflict with their religious beliefs; but these bills can also be used to deny services to interracial and interfaith marriages; four states have active bills like this: Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri and Ohio.

Other marriage exemption bills … provide other kinds of religious exemptions relating to same-sex marriage; five states have active bills in this category: Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma and South Carolina.

Bathroom Bills … ban transgender people from using public bathrooms that match their gender identity, and even makes the suing of the “wrong” bathroom a criminal offense; nine states have active bills relating to this: Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Tennessee.

God-Doesn’t-Want-Gay-People-To-Raise-Kids Bills … allow adoption and foster care agencies to refuse to provide any services that conflict with their religious beliefs about marriage, such as same-sex couples, regardless of what is in the best interests of a child; three states have pending bills like this: Alabama, Nebraska and Oklahoma.

And yet, even with all these Hate Bills out there, there are too many categories for all of them, but here are a few more of note: California and South Carolina have bills that require public universities to provide funds for student organizations, regardless of whether the organization discriminates against LGBT people based on religious beliefs. Arkansas, Oklahoma and Tennessee have bills that allow health professionals to services to LGBT people by citing religious objections.  And one bill in Oklahoma prevents local governments from passing nondiscrimination protections, including LGBT protections that go further than protections at the state level; North Carolina’s recent anti-LGBT law does this as well.

So, let’s celebrate the fact that we have won marriage equality, but while we sip our champagne and eat our non-hate-bakery goods, remember that the march is far from over.

The anger from the right over losing on marriage equality is fueling all kinds of hate bills aimed at our community out of spite and we cannot allow this to happen.

We need to use our voices, our votes — Vote Blue! — and our wallets to send a message that hate, for any reason, especially hate using God and Jeebus and the Bible as a reason, will not be accepted.

h/t HuffPo Queer Voices

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Sometimes, when a bill passes that paves the way for statewide discrimination — I’m looking at you Mississippi, right now — folks need a Come To Jesus moment.

Enter nonprofit organization Planting Peace who purchased space on a giant electronic billboard:

Yup, Planting Peace just countered a bill that discriminates in the name of religious freedom with one of Christianity's most fundamental principles. 

Aaron Jackson, president of Planting Peace:

"We will keep sharing this message as long as we need to, to counter hateful actions designed to infringe on people's basic human rights and dignity."

This isn’t the first time Planting Peace used a billboard to fight hate; last September, when Kentucky Kounty Klerk Kim Davis was to return to work after objecting to signing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Planting Peace bought billboard space in her hometown with a message about redefining marriage:

Planting Peace; it’s a good thing. 

Well the Supremes really gave a smackdown to the Conservatives and they did so unanimously … by ruling that states can rely on total population, and not just eligible voter population, when redrawing voter districts. 

It all began Texas Bigots Conservatives said that only the number of eligible voters should be relied upon when redistricting, and that the Constitution forbids counting immigrants, children, and prisoners, who are not legally eligible to vote.

Not so much said SCOTUS:

"The plaintiffs alleged the Texas legislative map effectively diluted the representation of citizens in rural, Republican-leaning areas in favor of Democratic-trending cities like Houston, where the population includes immigrants and children who are ineligible to vote. As the Framers of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment comprehended, representatives serve all residents, not just those eligible to vote" — Notorious RBG, AKA Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

So sorry Texas, but your plan to keep your state red, and conservative, might just fall out of favor now.

In North Carolina News:

PayPal has announced it will cancel its planned expansion in Charlotte over North Carolina’s newly-imposed anti-LGBT bill which bans all local LGBT rights ordinances.

PayPal CEO Dan Schulman said:

“Two weeks ago, PayPal announced plans to open a new global operations center in Charlotte and employ over 400 people in skilled jobs.  In the short time since then, legislation has been abruptly enacted by the State of North Carolina that invalidates protections of the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender citizens and denies these members of our community equal rights under the law … . As a result, PayPal will not move forward with our planned expansion into Charlotte.”

It’s on!

I kinda like, er, liked Martin Sheen but this idea of his sounds, well, disgusting.

It appears that Sheen believes that O.J. Simpson is innocent of the 1994 murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman; he doesn’t mean “not guilty,” he means “innocent.” And so he wants to prove it with a true crime TV show and is seeking to produce a six-part docuseries called Hard Evidence: O.J. Is Innocent for Investigation Discovery.

He says the show will reveal new evidence — like that rusty knife? — and cover a new hypothesis as to what happened on the night of the murders.

I know what happened: OJ murdered two people that night.

Most of Sheen’s docuseries — notice it isn’t a documentary but a docuseries, which is what Oprah called Lindsey Lohan’s “reality” show — will be based on a book by a private investigator called O.J. Is Innocent and I Can Prove It. Except, um, he didn’t prove it.

Sheen will also narrate the series and says he hopes that O.J. Is Innocent will help answer the following three questions:

“What if there were enough evidence that proved O.J. Simpson did not murder his ex-wife Nicole or Ron Goldman?

What if the real killer were still at large?

And finally, what if a grand jury convened to reconsider the case based on new evidence.”

And a fourth question: what if this is a ploy to capitalize on the American Crime Story: The People v OJ Simpson?

Oh, and this: OJ did it.

Greensboro, North Carolina was one of those cities whose LGBT rights ordinance was overturned by Hate Bill 2 and this week the Greensboro City Council voted 8-1 in favor of a resolution opposing Hate.

The lone dissenting vote came from the council’s only Republican because … of course.

“This is one of the worst discrimination bills that we’ve seen in a long time. It’s not really about bathrooms; that’s to throw us off track.” — city council member, Sharon Hightower

It’s a symbolic move, sure, but these voices of reason need to be heard throughout the state.

And speaking of voices of reason, on the heels of Mississippi’s voraciously hate-filled anti-LGBT law, the Jackson, Mississippi City Council also passed a resolution regarding that state’s Religious Liberty Accommodations Act signed into law by Governor Phil Bryant.

“Regardless of what our Governor, our state agencies our legislature may have passed, the city of Jackson wants you here regardless of what color you are, regardless of your sexual orientation, regardless of what gender you are, we want you here in Jackson.” — Councilman Tyrone Hendrix

The resolution states that Jackson acknowledges the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits governments from respecting an establishment of religion and protects all people equally under the law.

Sound, sane voices in Mississippi; let’s hope they are heard and more join the fight.

Up there in New York Coty, the MCC Theater held its annual Miscast benefit, in which Broadway’s stars perform songs from roles in which they would never be cast. The benefit helps MCC Theater produce Off-Broadway shows and supports its Youth Company and in-school partnerships that serve New York City public high school students. 

This year’s steamiest duet was between Broadway vets Gavin Creel — Jimmy in Thoroughly Modern Millie,  Claude in the revival of in Hair, and Elder Price in The Book of Mormon in London — and Aaron Tveit —  Gabe in Next to Normal, Frank Abagnale Jr. in the stage version of Catch Me If You Can, and Danny Zuko in Grease Live—who stole the show by playing the parts of Maureen and Joanne singing “Take Me of Leave Me” from Rent:

Aaron Tveit also sang “As Long As He Needs Me” from Oliver which cannot be embedded so go HERE to see and hear it ... beautiful.

ISBL Asshat of the Week: Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant

Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed Protected LGBT Hate into Law today making him the ISBL Asshat of the Week.

That is all. Let the boycotts begin ....

Hate Bills: Bad News, Good News

Those darned religious Freedom Restoration Acts [RFRAs] are everywhere.

Georgia tried to legislate discrimination using the Bible, and their governor, Nathan Deal, vetoed the bill … using the very same Bible as his reasoning for not allowing discrimination. And North Carolina Republicans did it, and their GOP governor, Pat McCrory, signed it into law instantly because, he thought, that would stop the argument; tell that to the long list of multi-million dollar corporations  demanding he repeal the law and the dozen or so states and cities that are no longer traveling to his state, including, perhaps, the federal government.

So, is that gonna stop any of these other states from trying to pass hate Bills.

Not Mississippi — where I was born, but moved from at age six months before the stupid stuck.

The GOP-dominated House of Representatives in that state voted last Friday to advance what many say is the most hate-filled anti-LGBT legislation in the country. The vote — 69-44 — sent the bill, which had already passed in the Senate, to Governor Phil Bryant, though a last ditch effort by the more reasonable thinking Democrats … Vote Blue! Vote Blue! … caused a delay requiring another vote today. This effort might give enough time for the people in Mississippi who believe in treating everyone equally a chance to convince Bryant, who hasn’t said he’ll sign the bill but has said he believes people of faith need “protection”, not to sign the Hate Law.

House Bill 1523—the Hate Bill—protects individuals, religious organizations, and certain businesses who cite religion as a reason to deny LGBT Mississippians services, and would keep them safe from government retribution. It also allows those who use faith as a weapon the right to deny LGBT citizens access to counseling services, foster care, and adoption services; religious wingnuts county clerks can also recuse themselves from issuing same-sex marriage licenses. The bill protects businesses that provide photography, poetry, videography, disc-jockey services, wedding planning, printing, floral arrangements, dress making, cake or pastry, artistry, wedding-venue rentals, limousine, car-service rentals, jewelry sales and services, or similar marriage-related services from having to do business with The Gays.

In addition, the government also could not penalize a religious organization for denying housing, employment, or services. And it protects people who believe “sexual relations are reserved” to opposite-sex marriages, and that being male or female is “objectively determined by anatomy and genetics at time of birth” and enforces sex-specific policies for employee or student dress or grooming, or concerning access to restrooms, showers, dressing rooms, or locker rooms.

It protects those who decline treatments, counseling, or surgeries related to sex reassignment or gender, identity transitioning, psychological, counseling, or fertility services. 

It’s just a complete anti-LGBT hate bill because Mississippi has no law banning LGBT discrimination.

Those on the side of Hate say this is just about same-sex marriage, and allowing people of faith not to have to do business with same-sex couples, but, um, why then does it include provisions for adoption, or fostering children? Why bathrooms and locker rooms and housing and employment discrimination? Why does it allow faith-based discrimination — an oxymoron if I ever heard one — in medical services?

It’s simple … because Gay.

Again, we can hope that Governor Bryant goes the way of Georgia Governor Nathan Deal or the way of Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe who, last week, also vetoed a so-called “religious freedom” bill that came across his desk:

“This legislation is … bad for business and creates roadblocks as we try to build the new Virginia economy. Businesses and job creators do not want to locate or do business in states that appear more concerned with demonizing people than with creating a strong business climate. Legislation that immunizes the discriminatory actions of certain people and institutions at the expense of same-sex couples would damage Virginia’s reputation for commonsense, pro-business government. We need only look at the damage these types of laws are doing in other states to understand the harm this bill could bring to our Commonwealth and its economy.”

Good on McAuliffe and good for Virginia, though i kinda wish he'd said he vetoed the bill because hate is wrong and not because it's bad for business and the almighty dollar; but money is king, you know.

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All of this nonsense, and there are more laws like this everywhere, just waiting to be passed, makes me wish I owned a business and could then operate my business by deciding who I would and would not serve.

Imagine the outrage if Bob’s Bridal Boutique catered only to atheists and gays; imagine the Christian outrage, the “How dare he”, if I decided I’d pick and choose who bought my cakes, or whose wedding I photographed or to whom I sold a tuxedo.

Imagine the Christians going nuts about that. Imagine the outrage if I opened a diner and  refused to serve Christians at the counter; if I had a special drinking fountain because I didn’t want Christians and wingnuts and Republicans drinking from the same one as the regular folks. Imagine a Christian being forced to sit at the back of the bus.

Imagine.

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