On 03-02-14, MIKE POWELL said to MATT MUNSON:   
      
      
   MP>|Because people got offended that they were required to bake cakes for   
   MP>same sex |couples, states are now making discrimination legal where you   
   MP>can decline to |serve people in your business based on religious purposes.   
   MP>Do most of you |think this is a real dangerous idea?   
      
      
   MP>I look at it another way... if a business would prefer not to serve me,   
   MP>for whatever reason, do I really want them to?   
      
      
   Businesses have the right to refuse service to anyone. A business owner has   
   the right to have his or her business defined by their own standards, and not   
   a bunch of perverts.   
      
      
   If I were a bar owner I would not want the homosexual crowd making my business   
   get defined as a `homosexual hangout'. And I've known bar and tavern owners in   
   the past who have refused to serve them for that very reason.   
      
      
   Businesses have refused to be defined as a `biker hangout' in the past by not   
   serving outlaw bikers who tried to turn their establishment into one. Ditto   
   with street gangs. Establishments have turned known and openly-obvious gang   
   members away from their businesses for the same reason.   
      
      
   A bakery does not have to allow itself to become defined as a place where   
   same-sex couples can feed their mutual delusion of `marriage' between two   
   same-sex people, by getting wedding cakes there.   
      
      
   If I were a baker and got put in the position of being sued by two homosexuals   
   because I wouldn't make them a wedding cake, I'd stop making wedding cakes as   
   part of my busniess. At least openly. It would be known in the heterosexual   
   community that I would make wedding cakes for couples in my home. But I would   
   no longer make wedding cakes in my public place of business. There is nothing   
   a court on any level could do about that.   
      
      
   And before you come back and claim I can't do that either, I know for a fact   
   that homosexual-oriented businesses have been refusing to do business with   
   heterosexuals, and getting away with it for years!   
      
      
   The homosexual crowd have been forcing their way into the mainstream of the   
   nation for many years, now. Many years ago in this very echo I warned that   
   homosexuality would even be taught in schools before long. I was roundly   
   cursed, labeled a `bigot', `not very tolerant', and many other things too   
   filthy and lengthy to list.   
      
      
   And guess what? In many schools it is now being taught as an `alternative life   
   style'!   
      
      
   Of course, the many sexually-transmitted deseases, not to mention injuries,   
   that accompany homosexual practices are not talked about at the same time. The   
   homosexuals do have their image to preserve.   
      
      
   My question is; why does society allow a small number of sex degenerates to   
   bully them into pretending that its all so nice? It isn't `nice'. Its   
   disgusting! A nation that would allow a mental illness to become `mainstream',   
   is a nation that is very near the end of its existence as a nation.   
      
      
      
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