@ said:Sorry but there’s no hypocrisy at all:
Bakers and Florists can think what they like about gay people getting married.just as Someone who doesnt want to associate with coloured people doesn’t have to go to their place for lunch, they just cannot actively discriminate against them.
People will still think whatever they want to think,
These people who want all these discriminating laws added,will probably never have to officiate at a gay wedding, or make a cake for them Anyway .
For one thing who would really want someone there who dosnt want their marriage to happen.
And there’s be plenty of more enlightened Bakers who would be willing to take the
Extra customers that the religious few will let go.
The people complaining now will probably never stop complaining , but there’s another way of looking at it .
A lot of Gay people are Fireman, Police, medical workers, surgeons Ambos,ect.
How would one of these over zealous Christians, Muslims, or any other ones feel, if they are lying in a crashed car, and one of these same rescue “Gays” decided that he didn’t want to help them and possibly save their life, because they discriminated against gay people,
That’s the thing, they would never do that , they’d go ahead and do their job and not give a thought about what sort of person the victim is.
Its a pity that the Bakers and Florists don’t just Stop and think about some of the real problems in the world, and accept that a vote was taken and lost.
I think that it’s safe to say that no one will end up in Hell because he or she cooked a Lamington for a gay wedding, in fact I think that we could gaurantee that.
Sorry to say, but this post just demonstrates that you are coming at this from a place of total ignorance. I'd say you don't know many Christians, and if you do, you haven't taken time to understand their perspective before commenting on what you 'think' their perspective is.
Just quickly, to point out the obvious flaws in your post:
**For one thing who would really want someone there who dosnt want their marriage to happen.**
Gay activists, that's who. A massive number of these cases in Europe and the US have been brought about by gay couples who actively sought out Christian businesses, knowing they would not participate, just so they could take legal action against them. This is exactly what will happen here shortly, without any doubt whatsoever.
**A lot of Gay people are Fireman, Police, medical workers, surgeons Ambos,ect.
How would one of these over zealous Christians, Muslims, or any other ones feel, if they are lying in a crashed car, and one of these same rescue “Gays” decided that he didn’t want to help them and possibly save their life, because they discriminated against gay people,**
Christians have no problem with gay people. Period.
The only issue of concern is to do with Homosexual sex, which the Church looks at in the same way as Heterosexual sex outside of Marriage. Because it is not performed between husband and wife with the intent to create new life, we consider it to be a deviation from the true purpose of sexual intercourse. Thats it.
Someone being attracted to people of the same sex in not considered to be sinful at all. We believe that gay people are created in the image of God, and that God doesn't make mistakes. So where your fireman analogy comes from …. ??? Wow.
**I think that it’s safe to say that no one will end up in Hell because he or she cooked a Lamington for a gay wedding, in fact I think that we could gaurantee that.**
Completely and utterly besides the point. Forget about gay weddings and florists, its a simple matter of freedom.
You are somebody that believes your freedom comes from Malcolm Turnbull. You believe that people should be 'forced', under threat of law, to participate involuntarily in transactions that violate their free-will.
When you give a government that type of power over your life, the day will come when you will be at the other end of the stick, and it will be your freedoms that are attacked because someone in a position of power deems that their interests are greater than yours. When you leave it to public servants to determine who its ok to discriminate against, and who its not ok to discriminate against, based on their personal opinions and biases, you are in very dangerous territory. And that's what you are not able, or willing, to understand.