Message from @Bookworm
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Nor should a county clerk as a government agent
I believe the Civil Rights Act has elements that could now be reconsidered
Why should you be denied agency because nobody is competing with you locally?
It's like anti-monopolization. The less competition, the less control you have.
Because there are basic services that I believe society can and should place protections upon. Basic food, shelter, utilities, etc.
We live in an era where people can deliver food to your house. If you're the only physical store but Amazon delivers to your area, is it waived?
I agree that a custom cake could be denied, but not commodities in a store that provides basic services.
As long as Amazon and the delivery services will serve you, then possibly.
So, the first person to deny service wins.
The last person has to provide service.
Again, I believe in the greatest agency that does not cause real harm. And hurt feelings need a really high bar before I consider that harm.
Offense can be considered harm?
Bookworm, it'll never be perfect. There as to be some balance to permit people the anility to live. But I do think we need to move the bar back a bit to permit people more agency to say no.
And which party do you believe is more likely to provide these 'rights'?
Efforts to intimidate people could be considered harm. A concerted effort to drive people to leave a home or community for example.
Neither, Bookworm
You believe they are equally unlikely to do so?
Both parties want to direct people to live like them
As long as the Republican Party remains in the thrall of Christian conservatives who wish to force thier views of behavior on others, the Republicans will never be a party of liberty or agency unless you just want the liberty and agency to live like they want you to.
The Dems suffer the same issue
So, you admit that you side with a party that will never give you what you claim to want from them and why you side with them.
I side with them because I vote family first
But I'd rather a centrist party not beholden to either the fringe left or right
Right, the Democratic Party gives you and your family financial incentives and bonuses.
It gives my family the right to the same recognition other families have
No more, no less
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Privilege, you mean.
Equal recognition
No more, no less
The privilege of equal recognition with a dissimilar situation.
I would disagree with dissimilar. Two consenting adults who wish to support each other and possibly raise the next generation.
Not all hetero marriages have kids. Many same sex ones do.
In your case, the situations are probably not critically different based off the purposes of the laws, no.
RADICAL CENTRISM
"We will introduce others to our moderate ways, *by force*!"
Uh huh
Sigh
@DrYuriMom I got guesses. But at the risk of sounding naive, how to homosexual couples usually get kids?
Many ways. Adoption. Some couples have kids from previous relationships. Lesbians can get pregnant from anonymous donors.
Which do you think is the most common and which did you use?