3 ms·
The counter argument being: what if instead of gay these people were African American? Could you refuse service then? Suppose it wasn’t cakes but a restaurant?
by zoba 8y ago
The counter argument being: what if instead of gay these people were African American? Could you refuse service then? Suppose it wasn’t cakes but a restaurant? In both instances, a minority is being refused service because of their specific minority status.
- cft 8y agoFalse analogy: Christianity is a common religion. The baker was a believer. What part of it mentions African Americans?
- jhall1468 8y agoThe literal definition of an analogy is that it uses a different scenario. That's not what false analogy means.
- geofft 8y agoIt was a common position in Christianity at certain points in this nation's history that black people should have less rights than white people. Literally the Southern Baptist Convention came into existence because the northern Baptists were too anti-slavery. "But religion" doesn't let you separate distinctions on sexual orientation from distinctions on race. (Disclosure, I'm Christian, but also I'm a non-white member of the whitest mainline Protestant denomination in the US....)
- RandomTisk 8y agoAnd it was Christianity that you can thank for the abolition movement.