Australia does not exactly have a secular government and so isn't the rest of the developed world (in contrary to what people think).
Just find another job lol
I absolutely agree with you. +1
Precisely!!!! (to an extent, that is the beauty of the free market), The argument, however, is not based on the notions of finding another job because you disagree with something... The argument is being placed in a precarious position at your place of employment, resisting on the premise that it contradicts your moral practices, and being punished for that... The argument is based on whether we punish people for this resistance... Do we use the Government to impose values, or do we let people live their own individual lives as they please...
A secular government is neutral on matters of belief in the sense that it is unmoved by religious values and religious lobbyists, not in the sense that it is passive on such issues.
That would be correct, if we were talking about a priest being forced to bless a gay couple, or a Muslim being forced to deal with pork. We're taking about a baker or a florist or a government celebrant. Interactions between people in a specifically non-religious context are civil matters governed by the state and religion has no say in it. If a baker chooses to not bake a wedding cake for a gay couple, that's not the baker's interpretation of his religion. That's discrimination.
Again, a gay couple should not have to do their business elsewhere because the florist is frankly, being a sore dick.
At the end of the day it's a greater benefit for the baker to bake the cake in terms of profit. Go somewhere else where they do do it, its the bakers choice...
I don't reckon they will either.
I think so too. It wouldn't work out too well for them because in 2016 and in Australia, there are still religious bigots and sore dick florists and bakers who'd vote Liberal just to protect their outdated opinions and monopoly on the society.
but all of the gay lobby groups unscientific polls always show 70 to 80% support! Unless the results are overstated/false/unscientific...
hah!
I never said all Liberals are bigots nor did I say that everybody who votes Liberal is a loser.
Calling Liberal voters out as bigots when they actually have genuine concerns... Yeah, that would do a lot to sway voters towards your so called cause... (Don't know where you got the impression that I even vote in the first place...)
Replace LGBTI with Aboriginal and you'll see how inappropriate that "argument" is.
That's the point! Why do you disapprove? Because a book full of historical and societal nonsense, which was once-upon-a-time useful but has now served its purpose, says so? If that's not your reason, I am genuinely interested in knowing it.
You literally just said you disapproved of it!
Just to clarify I am talking about the cultural monopoly of Christians. In accordance with what I said before, Christianity, or any other religion which has its followers tie themselves down to a book with questionable morals by today's standards, has no place in modern society and especially not in the legal system.
I don't like religion, so you should not worship it... Really? A tad Culturally Marxist, would you not say?
Did not say that.
Was not doing that.
Yes. Discrimination is a landmine.
Nah... Normal Christianity is bad enough. I'd argue that discriminating against gays in the 21st century is the equivalent of locking them up in the 20th.
Ooh look at the score in that gif, man. There's a reason the Jaguars supporter is baffled.