Thank you. No faith is being overruled here. No one is being forced what to believe.
Does anyone recall this image?
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights/buildings/litlrck2.JPG
There is a strikingly similar scenario at play here today. I'm not about to argue statistics over the opinion of the majority, but if we wish to progress as a society we must look back at our past. If a persons sexuality was as clear as the color of their skin, do you not think there would be people lining the doors of our schools, churches, libraries, threatening them not to enter?
I will fight all day for you to have freedom of speech and freedom of expression. With that comes someones right to express their own sexuality. Does one right trump the other? No. The motive at play today is that a man was fired because he expressed a opinion that his employers found to be detrimental to the company. It was his employers opinion that it was best for him to leave. Sadly, this thread on the other hand has become an ill fated place full of of what everyone wants as their perfect society. Do you really think the past was better? Maybe some of you, where you didn't have to defend your actions or words. Do some of you really want to go back to the days Jim Crow law? Does no one but a heterosexual Christian white male deserve to exist?
To all of you think that the past was a better time, I remind you that just 33 years ago, 19 year old Michael Donald was lynched in Mobile, Alabama. 15 years ago, 48 year old Shawn Allen Berry was dragged to death behind a truck. Racism is far from gone in this country, and so is hate against LGBT persons. While many major hurdles have been accomplished, there is still a unfathomable amount of negative opinions against all walks of life. Unfortunately, Phil Robertson beliefs happen to coincide with those views, views that are harmful in a society that must progress if we wish to not repeat the past. This is not an attack on Christianity or religion in general. In this country there are tens of millions of practicing Christians that accept people regardless of their character.