Let’s just see what happens when when a Christian is refused service, shall we?

[phantom power]

It’s always the same, this smug pious hate.

It’s not discrimination, they say. It’s not bigotry. We just don’t like their kind. It’s not us, it’s our God, see? He doesn’t like their kind. We have a right, they say, a right to refuse service, a right to keep them out of our schools, out of our government, out of our neighborhoods. We have a right to hate them, to despise them. They’re not like us, they’re not saved, not favored by our God, they’re not like real Americans. It’s our right to believe what we want. It’s not discrimination, it’s not!

In fact, said a prominent American Christian politician yesterday, they should be grateful. Yes, grateful. Grateful that we real Americans tolerate them at all. Why, in non-Christian countries they’d be put to death. So, yes, they should be grateful for what they have here in America. Second class is better than nothing and they should be grateful.

Bigots always say that.

They should be grateful.

Yes, they should be grateful. Why do they want to be here anyway? Why, you know, if I was them, if I was them, why I would just go somewhere else. I would. I wouldn’t make a big fuss. If a business refused to serve me, why that’s their right. I’d just take my business elsewhere. Let the free market fix it. I wouldn’t demand that they change their beliefs. Certainly not. That’s freedom. That’s liberty. I’d just go somewhere else.

Sure.

Sure you would.

Let’s just see what happens when when a Christian is refused service, shall we?

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http://www.stonekettle.com/2015/04/object-lessons.html

[99Forever]

1. Fascinating.

Thanks.

[phantom power]

2. I've become a real fan of Jim Wright. He writes well.

[Cryptoad]

9. ....

[treestar]

3. My bigoted uncle once claimed

his car broke down in a black neighborhood. He went into a restaurant and they informed him, so he says, that they didn't want his kind there.

That only makes them say see, it's equal, we are victims too, so it's OK if we do it, since others do it to us.

They would play the victim to the hilt and use it to justify their bigotry, so that's not the answer.

[tazkcmo]

11. That HAS happened to me.

Played sports in city rec league. Had a game at a park near my work which was located in a predominantly African American area of San Antonio's east side. Knowing I'd be close to work Saturday, I didn't pick up my pay check Friday. So, on Saturday, got to the park early and walked the 2 or 3 blocks to my work to get my check. Along the way a regular at the restaurant sees me and asks me what I'm doing in there and explains I'm not wanted (because I'm white) but because I work there it's ok to grab my check and leave. He walked me there and back to the park, chatting pleasantly along the way. He explained why all the regulars called me Kennedy (my haircut). When we got back to the park he recommended that in the future I pick up my paycheck in my car. Not everybody will recognize me out of my uniform so walking could be dangerous for me.

I was not angry, I was saddened because I knew why he had that attitude. If he was in a white community, he may have been gunned down by a police officer or neighborhood watch zealot. Not to mention the fact that his grandparents and parents wouldn't even be offered an opportunity to buy a home in that area legally. But when I was in his neighborhood, he walked with me and gave me safe passage. There's no equality in that.

[treestar]

12. Sorry to hear it is still that segregated

I am living in the area I grew up in and it's much more diverse now. I think that most people want all of those barriers and lines broken down.

And unfortunately it sounds like he thought other people might harm you there. Which feeds into white right winger claims.

[Thinkingabout]

4. I would like to see in the bible where Christians find it is okay to discriminate against others.

Jesus taught us to love one another, but in their book they do not want follow this teaching.

[sarge43]

5. Jesus would be the first to get kicked out

He was Jewish, brown skinned, never married and hung out with 12 guys.

[zeemike]

10. They solved that bible problem a long time ago.

They just don't read it...just memorize certain passages out of context to the story being told and call it good...in fact they avoid reading it as much as possible.

Years ago I knew someone who was a Baptist church gower and she told me they went on Wednesday night to practice Sword Drill....which amounted to memorizing passages dealing with questions that might be asked of them...that is when I realized just how they had avoided the story the bible told and brainwashed the young.

[DeSwiss]

6. ''I’d just go somewhere else.''

- Start packing asshole.



K&R

[The Wizard]

7. If your imaginary sky hero

causes abhorrent behavior, think of converting.

[MannyGoldstein]

8. That Twitter fight thread seems like it could come from DU

Observation vs. personal attacks.

Shameful.