njlauren -> RE: -=No tip for waitress, cause she's gay=- (11/21/2013 8:13:32 PM)
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ORIGINAL: njlauren one local paper claimed to have tracked the family down and they were members of an evangelical church.. I would be curious how they managed to do that. Do you have a link? [Asian Gallup Bistro General Manager Byron] Lapolla said he has received several requests to shame the family by name, but the restaurant will not. “We don’t want to attack the family,” he said. ~Source K. But my point is...so what? What if I went out tomorrow and proceeded to kick a dozen cute cuddly puppies, and I was on the news? And what if someone found out I am into BDSM? Would that mean that because I am into BDSM, I kick cute cuddly puppies? Or what if they found out I am a follower of Christ? Would that mean because I am a follower of Christ, I kick cute cuddly puppies? Maybe, I'm just a jerk.* (*hypothetically speaking of course) The point here is that a lot of people are assuming, quite reasonably, that the person who failed to tip and wrote the nasty note instead is basing their objection to homosexuality on their twisted version of Christianity. You kicking cute cuddly puppies would presumably be because you like kicking cute cuddly puppies not that you believe either BDSM or Christianity instructed you to kick cute cuddly puppies Thank you Ken, you said it well. What is being left out with the argument "I am a Christian, I kick puppies, therefore all Christians are puppy Kickers" leaves out something very, very basic, that Homophobia and gay hate has been a solid part of Christianity for many,many years, and it is only within my lifetime (now 60 years) that churches have started coming around, but it also leaves out the tremendous damage that was done and the lingering effects, you don't remove 2000 years of bias against gays (actually, probably more then that) in a generation or two. Put it this way, the more religious someone claims to be, the more likely it is that they look negatively upon gays; as a whole, Atheists have been a lot more friendly towards gays then most religious people have been, and to argue that religion has not been one of the prime promoters of anti gay bigotry is really, really stretching things. Getting back to the puppy kicking thing, if there were lines in the Bible that said "thou shalt kicketh the puppies, for they are unclean" or 'thou shalt not trouble the young dogs, who are dirty and bad", and someone used to to justify going out and kicking puppies, you might have an argument; but there is no such thing in the bible (it mentions dogs but only once, a dog called Tobit), and there has never been a church teaching against dogs (the idiots in the Catholic Church, on the other hand, with their usual accuracy, promoted pogroms against cats during the plague years, the same cats that could kill off the rodents that were spreading the disease as a vector for the fleas). I am not saying that all Christians are homophobic, but what I am saying is the kind of hate that would cause someone to judge a waitress like that is likely to come from someone with religious beliefs, twisted or not. As far as them being Christian, you have whole denominations who would not mind if gays were put in concentration camps or killed, you have supposed men of God saying gays should be stoned to death, and there are roughly 25 million people in the US who follow Christian dominionism, who believe the penalty for being gay should be death. Many evangelical groups, losing the battle in the US, are supporting efforts in places like Uganda to have draconian laws put in place, including death sentences, for being gay. These are all people who claim to be Christian, claim to be born again, and saying "they aren't really Christian" is a cop out, because the label is self applied...... Again, not all religious people are homophobic or hateful, and I wouldn't claim it, there are lots of wonderful people of all faiths who kind of have realized their parents and the rest were full of shit, and young people by far, other then the kids of evangelicals and ill educated people, are amazingly open. I think in context of what has happened with gay marriage, and living in NJ not all that far from where this incident took place, it really stands out, Bridgewater is isn't the backwoods someplace or northwest NJ, it is in one of the wealthiest, well educated counties in the country and this kind of thing isn't typical, and for someone to do something like that is unheard of, and I can tell you from personal experience, having lived here my whole life and seeing things from a variety of angles, the only people you see doing stuff like this are evangelical Christians and their ilk, and if what the claim on one of the news sites in the comment section was true (and I apologize, the story I referred to in an earlier post cited comments claiming they knew the person who had done it and they were evangelicals, I thought they had interviewed the people claiming). Around here, most people tend to be libertarian to liberal with social issues and most simply don't care, and when there is trouble 99% of the time it is some uber Christian type......even people who hate everyone, even if they wouldn't leave a tip, wouldn't bother to leave a note, the only people who routinely are driven to that level are evangelical Christians and the like. It shouldn't be so surprising, we have seen the Catholic Church's leadership in the past 30 years turn church teaching into being anti abortion and anti gay rights, we have seen a major political party have as a major plank wanting to amend the constitution to ban same sex marriage and we have seen the GOP routinely want to deny gays rights, including legal protection from discrimination, and guess who they are catering to? You got it, religious people, and if it were only a few nuts, they wouldn't bother, they do it because it represents a huge part of their base.......
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