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If basic parts of your job could be likened to being "contrary to their "sincerely held religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, or matters of conscience."" then they need to find themselves a new business or get work within their churches. The rest of society has every right to remain secular.
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Republicans really are the American Taliban. When they aren't arming fanatics with weapons of mass destruction, they want to codify hate and bigotry. Disgusting pigs.
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Pope, gotta hand it to ya, you do surprise me from time to time, and I mean that as a compliment, surprise is good. Based on many of your other comments, I had you pegged as a GOP fundamentalist.
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Does this bill single out gay people? Will someone with sincere religious beliefs against Jews deny them service?
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Wow, I would totally 'smoke coffee' if I could!
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@4 discrimination against people in a federally protected class (race, religion, disability, gender...) will still be prohibited. The bill is intended to legalize discrimination against the LGTBQ community.
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@5,

Not a typo. Read the interview, she does indeed attempt to smoke coffee.
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@3 Whaaa-a-at? His holy peabrain-ness has been reliably pro-gay and reliably liberal with a dose of occasional snark. How do you get 'GOP Fundamentalist' from that?
Could you be mistaking him for a different commenter? There are at least a couple others with some form of 'pope' in their name.
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Can gay people then discriminate against straight people? Well, not all straight people, just the obnoxiously straight people.
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Re the baby-antichrist- What an awful thing.
Didn't the Olde Testamente Gawd reliably and regularly slay entire races fir such trivial things as not saying the proper mumbo-jumbo when they prayed?

So if Gawd existed, shouldnt he slay that entire clan of fucksticks for murdering that infant?
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10, But the had a sincere religious belief that that baby was the Antichrist.
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Nice to have the antichrist problem dealt with so simply. Now what, Revelations?
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SPD to Little to Late. I don't hear Pugel rising up and or speaking up about all the corruption and cover ups by the SPD. Is this guilt without remorse.
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I'm just going to repeat exactly what I wrote in yesterday's news comments:

This is the reason I'm not just atheist, but anti-theist. Christians complain that atheists are aggressive and pushing their atheist agendas and why can't they just mind their own business.

This is why I'm not going to mind my own business. I would gladly leave them alone if they would leave me alone. But they don't. They tell people its your choice if you want to believe or not, and when you tell them you don't believe they turn around and demand it.

Fuck religion.
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@14 I'm with you.
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I have a sincere religious belief that we should burn all flowers as the Devil's Handmaiden.

So, does this mean I get to light florist shops up?

No, we live in a civil society. Religious fanatics don't get to tell us how to live. They can talk about it, but they don't set the rules.
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Be careful what you wish for, Republicans:

A State Bill to Legalize Discrimination: Komo reports that the Republican bill would give businesses the right to deny services to gays if it was contrary to their "sincerely held religious beliefs, philosophical beliefs, or matters of conscience."

...That shit cuts both ways. Many ways, in fact.
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Define sincere. C'mon legislators - what does it mean?

Or is like what Justice Potter said about porn ("I know it when I see it.")

That's a Pandora's box they are opening. Sow the wind, reap the whirlwind.
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@19 Actually, that shit cuts pretty much only one way.

apps.leg.wa.gov/
billinfo/summary.aspx?
bill=5927&year=2013

The best part is that even if we get Federal protections for LGBT people later, the legislation as written, freezes the protected status list to August 1, 2013.

This looks pretty tightly constructed for a Republican hate-law.
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@20 Christians are a protected class. They don't give a shit about anybody else.
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Given the known toxic effects of glyphosate [main active ingredient of Roundup] reviewed here and the plausibility that they are negatively impacting health worldwide, it is imperative for more independent research to take place to validate the ideas presented here, and to take immediate action, if they are verified, to drastically curtail the use of glyphosate in agriculture. Glyphosate is likely to be pervasive in our food supply, and, contrary to being essentially nontoxic, it may in fact be the most biologically disruptive chemical in our environment.


Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases
Anthony Samsel 1 email and Stephanie Seneff 2,
Entropy 2013, 15(4), 1416-1463; doi:10.3390/e15041416

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