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Interesting that the same people using the "private company" argument to justify censorship on Twitter are arguing a private company must violate their own religious principles for the benefit of gays.
Warning SC Judges? Dire consequences? All the more reason to rule in favor of the designer. Being gay is nothing like being black or living according to a faith. I wish more people - especially blacks and people of other faiths would open their fucking mouths and stop allowing themselves to be identified with the alphabet klan.
 

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Warning SC Judges? Dire consequences? All the more reason to rule in favor of the designer. Being gay is nothing like being black or living according to a faith. I wish more people - especially blacks and people of other faiths would open their fucking mouths and stop allowing themselves to be identified with the alphabet klan.

Because this is a religious freedom case, not a racial discrimination case. There is no major organized religion in America that teaches that discrimination based on race, or that racism, is acceptable. Therefore, no serious private business owner could argue in a court of law they are discriminating against blacks because of their deeply held religious convictions. On the other hand, the Bible does to teach that homosexuality is a sinful act. The bible was written centuries ago and is claimed to be the word of God. How can government overrule the word of God in a country that guarantees religious freedom?

The Supreme Court, in my opinion, has been extremely wishy-washy when it comes to gay rights. It should have ruled emphatically a long time ago that a person has an unalienable right to practice his religion according to its established beliefs even if it means he refused to bake a cake or provide a service to a gay or trans wedding. Gays and transgenders have the option to go find another service provider.

A transgender couple is suing the same baker in Colorado who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding. This is clearly a case of using the courts to punish a man who chooses to follow his religious beliefs.
 

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Because this is a religious freedom case, not a racial discrimination case. There is no major organized religion in America that teaches that discrimination based on race, or that racism, is acceptable. Therefore, no serious private business owner could argue in a court of law they are discriminating against blacks because of their deeply held religious convictions. On the other hand, the Bible does to teach that homosexuality is a sinful act. The bible was written centuries ago and is claimed to be the word of God. How can government overrule the word of God in a country that guarantees religious freedom?

The Supreme Court, in my opinion, has been extremely wishy-washy when it comes to gay rights. It should have ruled emphatically a long time ago that a person has an unalienable right to practice his religion according to its established beliefs even if it means he refused to bake a cake or provide a service to a gay or trans wedding. Gays and transgenders have the option to go find another service provider.

A transgender couple is suing the same baker in Colorado who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding. This is clearly a case of using the courts to punish a man who chooses to follow his religious beliefs.
I know but the alphabet klan is the one conflating the issues, claiming that blacks, Jews and Muslims are next, despite the impossibility of such a thing. They should open their fucking mouths and stop allowing their culture, faith, identity to be misused by these imbeciles.
 

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Fucking Biden and this government. Disgraceful.

But hey I bet ESPN will have 72 hours of celebration.
 

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#fucktardisminaction


You know Putin is laughing his arse off over this deal. Russia didn't want the Merchant of Death back. They could care less about him. They used him to embarrass American and Biden. We traded a convicted arms dealer for an America hating lesbian WNBA player who was convicted of possession of a banned substance - while a man falsely accused of espionage continues to languish in prison.

Biden should be forced to explain while a guilty lesbian with an 8 year sentence was given priority over an innocent white man in his negotiations with Russia. I think we know why but this should be offensive to everyone in this country.
 

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Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout: The ‘Merchant of Death’ swapped for Brittney Griner

Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout, swapped Thursday for WNBA star Brittney Griner, is widely known abroad as the “Merchant of Death” who fueled some of the world’s worst conflicts.

In Russia, however, he’s seen as a swashbuckling businessman who was unjustly imprisoned after an overly aggressive U.S. sting operation.

The 2005 Nicolas Cage movie “Lord of War” was loosely based on Bout, a former Soviet air force officer who gained fame supposedly by supplying weapons for civil wars in South America, the Middle East and Africa. His clients were said to include Liberia’s Charles Taylor, longtime Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and both sides in Angola’s civil war.

 

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The war on Christmas has started this year, sadly in Texas. Texas Values staff is at the City Council now. Tonight, the city council of Taylor, Texas (in Williamson County/Central Texas) will meet to take action on a 300-page agenda. Agenda Item 13 (pgs. 266-270), a new policy that disqualifies and essentially bans Christians from being a part of city-sponsored events including Christmas parades. Also, if a church or Christian nonprofit wants to participate in a special city event they will be forced by the government to adopt a dangerous and controversial LGBT sexual orientation and gender identity policy that is not even recognized in state law.

The language of the egregious policy says "Examples of requests that are typically deemed ineligible include...individuals, organizations...who....represent religions..." The city council plans to vote TODAY on this issue.

The city council's move comes mere days after the City of Taylor withdrew a sponsorship for a Christmas parade from a church-based Christian group while having a separate city-sponsored Christmas parade which included an LGBT group and Drag Queen performers. You read that right; the City of Taylor chose Drag Queens over Christians and churches for their Texas Christmas Parade. After intense public attention and media coverage, the city allowed the Christian and church groups to have a separate parade this past Saturday.

But, now it appears the city government wants to permanently ban Christians and churches from participation in such city events in the future, since they have proposed this new rule for the first time this week and they are scheduled to vote today!!

 

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FTX customer funds were commingled with assets from Alameda Research. Alameda used client funds to do margin trading, which exposed them to massive losses, Ray said.

Legal experts told CNBC that if the federal government pursues wire or bank fraud charges, Bankman-Fried could face life in prison without the possibility of supervised release. Such a severe punishment would be unusual but not extraordinary. Ponzi scheme mastermind Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison, an effective life sentence, for his massive ponzi scheme.

 

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