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"Completely Intolerant"

by: Dean Barker

Wed Jan 25, 2012 at 20:31:33 PM EST
From Rep. Frank Sapareto's new bill:
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person, including a business owner or employee thereof, shall be required to provide services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges to an individual if the request is related to the solemnization, celebration, or promotion of a marriage and providing such services, accommodations, advantages, facilities, goods, or privileges would be a violation of the person's conscience or religious faith.
This bill gives Granite Staters the legal right to discriminate against others.

For example, if the wedding caterer's "conscience" opposes interracial marriages, he can legally refuse to do business with an interracial couple.

And this, which (spoiler alert) is not parody:

(Rep. Sapareto) said he's been called a bigot for raising the issue. "They're completely intolerant," Sapareto said of opponents.

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"Completely Intolerant" | 13 comments
Waiting for the signs (4.00 / 1)
Anyone else waiting for the signs?  You know, "White counter only"  You think I'm kidding, but this is the first step.

"We start working to beat these guys right now." -Jed Bartlet
So employees have veto power? (4.00 / 1)
It appears that if one employee objects than a business cannot offer its services.

If a waiter (or dishwasher or whatever) does not want to work at gay/Jewish/biracial (or whatever)wedding, it appears that the business cannot cater that wedding.

Nice work Frank.

Interesting scenarios. (4.00 / 2)
"No way I'm washing these dishes, man. She can do so much better. This is just wrong."
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Ungodly (0.00 / 0)
Freedom of religion is not a license to deny equal rights to others; not a license to be ungodly.

From Webster's

impious, irreligious, sinful, wicked


Running for State Rep 2012 in Hillsborough District 2
Aaron Gill, Deering: nhgill.com Twitter: Gill4NHStateRep
What Would Jesus Do? n/t (0.00 / 0)


[I'm a former has-been House member and State Senator, but I keep "Rep." on my ID name for easy reference of previous posts.]
Why would any sensible (4.00 / 2)
business, especially when we are still in hard economic times, want to turn down a customer who has money to spend?  Especially when, if the majority of NH citizens don't like this sort of discrimination, they would most likely lose other customers as well.  Any business person that dumb deserves to go bankrupt!
None would (4.00 / 2)
... And that's the point. I would bet that the number of businesses that would refuse to serve a same-sex couple for a wedding in this state is vanishingly small.

It's a bill that's meant for theatrics and to answer for a problem that doesn't exist. But it allows for furthering the fantasy story that somehow gay folks want to "force their marriages down the throat of NH" (the innuendo there is repellent, by the way, NOM).

We want equality. That's it.

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ITL Godspeed n/t (0.00 / 0)


Running for State Rep 2012 in Hillsborough District 2
Aaron Gill, Deering: nhgill.com Twitter: Gill4NHStateRep
This is so self-defeating (4.00 / 1)
This will backfire! Any business that takes this tack will find themselves black-balled and catering only to other similarly intolerant customers. We all live in the Twitter-sphere and facebook-world.  

 "The future is not something to be predicted, it's something to be achieved,"  unattributed aphorism



I'd Puke but I can't keep up (4.00 / 1)

Can you imagine what it's like to actually believe in this stuff.

I guess that's the silver lining--I've never met a happy light hearted bigot.

I don't wan't to wish misery on any one, but these people deserve themselves and each other. If only people would stop voting for them.

"Sorry, we don't serve your kind" (0.00 / 0)
I'd heard about this elsewhere on the internet and thought that the suggestions that it would legally authorize discrimination against interracial and interfaith marriages were exaggerations... but no.
actually this is a vehicle for employers to discriminate in hiring using marriage as a fig leaf (4.00 / 2)
You could not have a conflict between employer and employee. The employer's wishes must trump the employee so ....since you never know when a couple planning a marriage might use the local MacDonald's for their reception or rent tables from my local TaylorRental or buy gas for the limo from BP the opportunities to discriminate are endless. Go Frank...apartheid is just around the corner.
Interesting point. (0.00 / 0)


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