Oklahoma lawmaker: Gays ‘don’t have a right to be served in every single store’

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 An Oklahoma lawmaker is moving forward with a bill that would allow businesses to refuse service to potential customers if they find their  “s-x, gender, or s-xual orientation” offensive due to their religious beliefs, reports The New Civil Rights Movement.

State Senator Joseph Silk ® is sponsoring the “Oklahoma Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 2015,” which would protect businesses — religious or secular — from lawsuits for discriminating against customers who offend their “sincerely held religious beliefs.”

In an interview with the New York Times, Silk explained the LGBT community is infringing upon the religious beliefs of Americans, making it impossible for them to maintain their religious convictions.

“The L.G.B.T. movement is the main thing, the primary thing that’s going to be challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions,” Silk explained before  adding, “And I say that sensitively, because I have homos-xual friends.”

Silk explained that members of the LGBT movement need to be sensitive to the rights of religious business owners, which trump their rights as consumers and citizens.

“They don’t have a right to be served in every single store,” he said. “People need to have the ability to refuse service if its violates their religious convictions.”

According to Silk’s bill, businesses — including non-profits — would have the right to deny, “Services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, and goods or privileges,” to anyone who offends their religious sensibilities.

Additionally businesses could refuse to provide counseling, adoption, foster care and other social services, while also refusing to hire a person based upon their gender or s-xual orientation.

Under Silk’s proposed law, businesses would not be able to be sued for discrimination.

Arkansas is also considering a bill similar to Silk’s, calling it the more mundane “Intrastate Commerce Improvement Act.”

Source: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/oklahoma-gop-lawmaker-gays-dont-have-a-right-to-be-served-in-every-single-store/ 

[Princess Die 1,864]

Choke on a donkey ****. I love how Christians claim they are being oppressed by allowing gays to shop at 7/11

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Just so everyone knows, I am a Christian and I´m also gay but I don´t go around playing God like some of those idiots do.

[Dayum 240]

Can we refuse them service because their religion deeply contradicts our s-xual orientation? Hardly think so.

[420 1,042]

Religions suck. Bye.

[Navy 495]

Yes they do have the right you ****ing idiot. This guy is ignorance at it's finest. 

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Of course, he had to play the "I have gay friends" card.

[Arcane 208]

I disagree. Sick of these 'religious convictions' treating somebody lgbt like they're a bad anomaly.

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Go suck John McCain's chode religious Conservatism 

[Harry 26,836]

inb4 1986 defends this

[MahoganySnitch 67]

These things crack me up. 

If religious business owners' rights trump that of the consumer and citizen, would it also apply to non-Christian religious business owners?  Hmm I wonder. 

And good luck defending this in court if it ever does become a thing  

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Of course, he had to play the "I have gay friends" card.

TEANUS teas

[Luiz 4,253]

i'll say it again dammit. we need the gay religion already.

then we keep the breeders out of Apple stores  

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i'll say it again dammit. we need the gay religion already.

then we keep the breeders out of Apple stores