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Cherie | This Witch doesn't burn
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 68,599
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Strictly 2020: Bill Bailey BB19: Sian
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Cherie | This Witch doesn't burn
Join Date: Oct 2011
Posts: 68,599
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Strictly 2020: Bill Bailey BB19: Sian
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Originally Posted by Livia
I agree with Peter Tatchell on the subject of gay marriage, he seems to have worked it out. This is about the Northern Ireland case, but the subject is the same.
“Although I strongly disagree with Ashers’ opposition to marriage equality,” the veteran LGBT and human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell has observed, “in a free society neither they nor anyone else should be compelled to facilitate a political idea that they oppose.” He is right.
Had Ashers refused to serve Lee because he was gay, or because of his support for same-sex marriage, then I can see why it would be guilty of discrimination. But it did not. It declined to decorate a cake with a particular message.
The Ashers discriminated not against an individual but against a specific political demand. To compel an individual or business not to discriminate between political demands has, as Tatchell points out, “dangerous implications”: “A Jewish publisher could be obliged to print a book that propagates Holocaust denial. Likewise, Muslim publishers could be legally pressured, against their will, to print the Danish cartoons of Muhammad that Muslims find deeply offensive.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...o-refuse-order |
sums it up for me
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Originally Posted by Beso
Livelier than Izaaz, and hes got 2 feet.
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