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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
That would be the general case, but for the fact that I have seen gay rights (in the form of gay adoption) being used as a "solution" to the problem of heterosexual family formation being made more difficult due to negative economic pressure.
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Not an issue I've come across due to my location (adoption is borderline impossible in Australia, to the point where it's easier to adopt a child overseas and return to the country with them).
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Originally Posted by Robert Schunk
Your argument also fails to satisfy my displeasure with the idea that Christian bakeries should be compelled to participate in same-sex weddings, which strikes me as state-ordained compulsory speech, an aspect of totalitarianism.
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Oh god, the fucking bakery argument.
I mean, the
literal job description for being a baker is to bake things. If you pick and choose whether you'll bake things because of personal characteristics of the buyer, then you're kind of a terrible person.
It'd be like a car salesman refusing to sell cars to women, because it goes against his 'personal convictions'.
Nobody's making the bakers watch the wedding. They just need to bake a cake.
EDIT: and when the business inevitably closes due to bankruptcy, spare me the Fox News tears about the terrible liberals running this poor owner out of business in an anti-religion conspiracy. It's called the free market, something that has its benefits - namely, businesses that suck aren't businesses for very long.