Driver who refused to work pride bus fired

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  1. Doug_yvr

    Doug_yvr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Good comparison. If a gay person refused to drive a bus with an eHarmony advertisement on the side how would people feel about that?
     
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    Polydectes Well-Known Member

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    I honestly don't think they would. Gay people aren't offended by the existence of straight people
     
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    marriage is something between man and woman, everything else are special privileges.
    Relationships between man and woman requires government regulation that is why we have marriage.
    Gay sex is not a marriage as well as sex with prostitute.
     
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    B.S. interracial marriage was prohibited due to anti-miscegenation laws.
    Those laws have been abolished, that is it.
    Interracial policy has nothing to do with marriage.
     
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    Nope.

    The supreme court recently ruled reserving marriage as a special privilege for mixed sex couples would be unconstitutional.




     
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    Actually, some of those laws are still on the books. They're just not enforceable because the supreme court ruled enforcing them would be unconstitutional. Same as those anti-same sex laws more recently found to be unconstitutional.

    Virginia and Mississippi have laws on their books saying racial integration of schools illegal too.





     
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    It does not really matter what Supreme Court said, I am talking about reality.
    The reality is that relationship between man and woman is regulated by the government while the relationship between two people is not regulated.
    In real world it means homosexuals receive 1000 benefits for no particular reason.
     
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    I can guarantee that not every person in the city wants a "pride bus." Some bureaucrat in the city decided that they will have one, so they have one. It's inappropriate for the government to make political statements, just like it was inappropriate for the white house to be lit up like a rainbow. The government is supposed to represent the people, not just the < 3% of the population who adhere to aberrant sexual behavior. If it's inappropriate for the government to fly the Democrats battle flag, it's inappropriate for them to fly a gay pride flag. Having the flag on a government owned bus indicates that the government endorses the position of the "community." This means that anyone who doesn't agree with the position of said group could, and might, be offended because it's their money that is being spent to advertise gayness. Taking money from one group, with the threat of imprisonment, seems like throwing it in the first groups face, to me.

    Most people don't care what others do with other consenting adults. I know I don't care what they do. I do care what the government spends my money on, so spending it on a "pride bus" would offend me.

    Most gays don't go around throwing their sexually in others faces. The problem is the large community, of activists, that does. They're the ones that have parades wearing speedos, or assless chaps, in the middle of the city. They're the ones yay go out of their way to get offended at things like heterosexual advertisement. (You do realize heterosexuality is normal and required for the continuation of the species, right? ) They're the ones that go out of their way to offend others by trying to force others to believe that they're lifestyle is normal and may be embraced by all. Those are the people that are shoving their sexual preference in everyone else's faces. If you choose not to see that, it's your problem.

    Knight
     
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    same way heterosexuals get those benefits for no particular reason? like being able to visit you spouse in the ICU, ect...
     
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    The reality is that the legal status 'married' is defined by law. And the supreme court has ruled on that law.

    You and I are free to hold any personal associations with the term we may like. The reality is your personal associations don't matter to me.




     
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    Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
     
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    Like not having to pay inheritance tax on the house the couple built when one half the couple dies. Or not loosing the retirement income or health coverage the couple worked a lifetime for when the wrong one dies first. Or not having to keep secrets from your better half, because the right against self incrimination only extends to your partner if they're of the opposite sex. It's a long list...

    There are 1000's of considerations we offer people who choose to live one life, to make the laws of this nation -- which are written for people living single lives -- fair to couples living a shared life too. And none of those accommodations are based on any expectation or are any less fair if the couple owns an even or odd number of penises.





     
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    Political statement? What political statement?
    I don't recall reading that the government withdrew support from all non gay people. When did that occur?
    I don't recall saying either is inappropriate.
    Advertise gayness? that hardly makes sence.
    That one group is the entire population, so there is no other group. I was unaware that homosexuals were exempt from taxes.

    Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). you are acting like you are a victim to the existance of homosexuals. you whined about them rubbing their sexuality in your face, but failed to explain how. that sounds like it bothers you a lot. you cried because they don't act how you think they should. So you are full of it. you care deeply what other people do.
    Petition.

    Lol, do you have examples? [QUOTE}They're the ones that have parades wearing speedos, or assless chaps, in the middle of the city. They're the ones yay go out of their way to get offended at things like heterosexual advertisement.[/QUOTE]And nobody else has ever done that before right?
    no it isn't, biology doesn't halt because two women love each other. that is just stupid.
    Yeah it's all about you, its perfectly reasonable to believe that there is a conspiracy of gay people that go out of their way to bother people they don't know, just to confound them. Occam's razor dictates that must be the case. nothing else is remotely pheasant.
    Yeah people are out to get you, for no real reason. that's likely.
    I stopped believing in the boogeyman once i was able to reach the doorknob.
     
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    Advertising is designed to reach the greatest market share. LGBT nonsense is POLITICAL.
     
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    Politics is designed to have mass appeal, It isn't politics.
     
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    They're accustomed to straight advertisements.

    What I meant though is this: if a gay person refused to drive a bus with an eHarmony ad would the same people who are coming to the defense of the bus driver now defend the gay bus driver?
     
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    Doug_yvr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    So you're all about big government then. The government even regulates relationships?
     
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    But heterosexual is not political? How do you distinguish?
     
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    "so bragging means nothing"
    Who's "bragging". I just think that YOU believe that YOU are the only one that has worked many years (you statement "You think your money is yours but not all of it is.") thus YOU are going to educate a young (that would be me) whipper snapper.......
    Foolish to think (that would be YOU) that YOU are the only one in this world that has worked a long time, doncha think?
     
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    No they wouldn't. It doesn't fit into their propaganda.

    They like to play like they are victims of homosexual oppression. Which is utterly hilarious.
     
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    :knifefork::knifefork::knifefork:
    Seems you argument got blown.

    Why does this lack of tolerence only apply to Christians?

    Still waiting. :popcorn:
     
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    So the Muslim and the Black should be fired if they refuse to drive the bus?​
     
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    Well lets just say one did for the sake of argument. Or it was a Muslim who did not want to drive a his where a Jewish Star of David was on it. Should the Muslim be fired?
     
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    A driver who does not drive, is not doing the job. Yes, I'd fire someone who doesn't do their job. And whether that person is Muslim, black, gay, Catholic, ginger, martian, or otherwise doesn't seem relevant to me.





     
  25. Polydectes

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    It's up to the employer to make that call
     

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