Seeking clarity
I want to better understand what's going on in Arizona. People who operate businesses believe their religious freedom is being infringed because they aren't legally permitted to discriminate against homosexuals and; based on the language of the bill, a whole lot of other groups of people. So if a person's set of religious beliefs includes one that makes all homosexuals "sinners", they can legally refuse to provide them with access/service.
Never mind that SB 1062 will never survive a Constitutional challenge. The problem here is that this is one of the most slippery of slippery slopes ever. Just imagine the litany of sins business owners could choose to demand their customers not engage in. For the purpose of review, let's look at the Ten Commandments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAtRCJIqnk
Oh wait...wrong ten commandments. Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
What this bill means is that if a business owner wanted to, they could discriminate against anyone who:
Worships other Gods.
Makes graven images
Swear (take the Lord's name in vain)
Fail to observe the Sabbath
Not honor their parents
Live in sin.
Steal.
Lie.
Covet.
And that's just one set of permutations for Judeo-Christian faiths. I could start my own religion where we discriminate against people for their race, their age, or anything other factor. Where would it end?
The part I really don't grasp is how a business owner is bothered religiously by serving someone whose belief system they don't share. They aren't being asked to become homosexuals, or to support gays; merely to provide them the exact same access and treatment as everyone else.
I will be in the front of the boycott of any business that chooses to so discriminate, anywhere, anytime.
* * *
Not that it is a historic event or anything, but I've changed my mind about something. When I first read about how the state of Missouri was suing to prevent a California law from restricting the ability of Missouri egg farmers to sell their wares in the state, I felt that they would and should prevail in court.
Now that I've read a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a similar case involving California's restrictions on the sale of foie gras, I believe that California has the right to do what it is doing. It isn't so much a set of protections for California's farmers to limit competition from out of state growers. As long as the state is requiring anyone who sells the product in question (foie gras or eggs) to adhere to the same standards in producing the product, they aren't regulating what outside entities do. California is merely enforcing its own standards within its borders.
* * *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6afKhS-aMTM
I bet no one is going to want to visit this particular Pizza Hut location anytime soon. It's in West Virginia. What's really interesting is that he WAS a district manager for Pizza Hut, and was in charge of six locations.
What in the world was this moron thinking? Was he really too lazy to walk across the store to use the men's room? Obviously no one else was around.
What's really amusing me is that Justin Bieber can take a piss in the mop bucket of a restaurant, the one that is used to clean the floors in the place and nothing happens. This fool does the same thing in a sink that's used to clean utensils and the health department is on it in a minute. Yeah, yeah, floors don't touch food with the exception of something that falls in the kitchen and doesn't get tossed out due to someone breaking the ten-second rule. Still, something should have been done to sanitize in both cases.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Hulk Hogan will return to the WWE. Depending on how that goes, I'll yawn, or cheer loudly at WrestleMania.
It was genius for someone to realize that selling Girl Scout cookies outside a marijuana dispensary would be a serious money-maker.
Does the firing of music director Harold Wheeler and then co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet mean Dancing With the Stars is on its last legs (no pun intended)?
The IRS isn't watching just what gets reported to it about your income, it looks at social media. The best solution is to be scrupulously honest on your tax return.
It is very cool that "L. A. Law" is finally coming to DVD. Been a long wait.
Since Philip Seymour Hoffman and his long-time girlfriend never married, and he did not engage in any serious estate planning in more than a decade; she's going to pay somewhere between $12 million and $15 million in estate taxes. Maybe marrying just for tax purposes isn't a bad thing.
Ted Nugent isn't really sorry about what he called President Obama.
I'm watching "Patterns of Force", an original Star Trek episode and I'm wondering about something I never noticed before. A line of dialogue makes no sense when examining the episode as a whole. Guess my pedantry just grows in scope as I age.
A 28 year old middle school teacher has been arrested on charges of molestation involving two students. Disgusted? Does your disgust level increase or decrease when you learn it was a woman molesting young boys?
Maria Shriver doesn't need to take a break from her job as an NBC News correspondent while her brother campaigns for a seat on the County Board of Supervisors. It isn't like she'd be covering his campaign anyway.
Walter Ehlers died two days ago at the age of 92. He was one of eight surviving U. S. military men who fought in World War II and received a Medal of Honor. RIP, sir.
Will the Menendez brothers ever get out of prison or see one another again? Why would women marry men who will never see freedom again?
* * *
303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 – Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1885 – Sino-French War: French Army captures Dong Dang.
1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
Famous Folk Born on February 23rd:
Carl Menger
Victor Fleming
Terence Fisher
Paul Tibbets (pilot of the Enola Gay)
Elston Howard
Majel Barrett (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gPmI0RXbUU)
Tom Osborne
Diane Varsi
Paul Morrissey
Peter Fonda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cea_SDUKIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chASooi74VI)
Fred Biletnikoff
Patricia Richardson
Bobby Bonilla
Michael Dell
Emily Blunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9EWsmh864 I'm one of the few who actually saw this movie)
Dakota Fanning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4DBOrany-8)
No movie quotes today because I have to get to Trivia.
Never mind that SB 1062 will never survive a Constitutional challenge. The problem here is that this is one of the most slippery of slippery slopes ever. Just imagine the litany of sins business owners could choose to demand their customers not engage in. For the purpose of review, let's look at the Ten Commandments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TAtRCJIqnk
Oh wait...wrong ten commandments. Try this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten_Commandments
What this bill means is that if a business owner wanted to, they could discriminate against anyone who:
Worships other Gods.
Makes graven images
Swear (take the Lord's name in vain)
Fail to observe the Sabbath
Not honor their parents
Live in sin.
Steal.
Lie.
Covet.
And that's just one set of permutations for Judeo-Christian faiths. I could start my own religion where we discriminate against people for their race, their age, or anything other factor. Where would it end?
The part I really don't grasp is how a business owner is bothered religiously by serving someone whose belief system they don't share. They aren't being asked to become homosexuals, or to support gays; merely to provide them the exact same access and treatment as everyone else.
I will be in the front of the boycott of any business that chooses to so discriminate, anywhere, anytime.
* * *
Not that it is a historic event or anything, but I've changed my mind about something. When I first read about how the state of Missouri was suing to prevent a California law from restricting the ability of Missouri egg farmers to sell their wares in the state, I felt that they would and should prevail in court.
Now that I've read a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a similar case involving California's restrictions on the sale of foie gras, I believe that California has the right to do what it is doing. It isn't so much a set of protections for California's farmers to limit competition from out of state growers. As long as the state is requiring anyone who sells the product in question (foie gras or eggs) to adhere to the same standards in producing the product, they aren't regulating what outside entities do. California is merely enforcing its own standards within its borders.
* * *
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6afKhS-aMTM
I bet no one is going to want to visit this particular Pizza Hut location anytime soon. It's in West Virginia. What's really interesting is that he WAS a district manager for Pizza Hut, and was in charge of six locations.
What in the world was this moron thinking? Was he really too lazy to walk across the store to use the men's room? Obviously no one else was around.
What's really amusing me is that Justin Bieber can take a piss in the mop bucket of a restaurant, the one that is used to clean the floors in the place and nothing happens. This fool does the same thing in a sink that's used to clean utensils and the health department is on it in a minute. Yeah, yeah, floors don't touch food with the exception of something that falls in the kitchen and doesn't get tossed out due to someone breaking the ten-second rule. Still, something should have been done to sanitize in both cases.
* * *
Random Ponderings:
Hulk Hogan will return to the WWE. Depending on how that goes, I'll yawn, or cheer loudly at WrestleMania.
It was genius for someone to realize that selling Girl Scout cookies outside a marijuana dispensary would be a serious money-maker.
Does the firing of music director Harold Wheeler and then co-host Brooke Burke-Charvet mean Dancing With the Stars is on its last legs (no pun intended)?
The IRS isn't watching just what gets reported to it about your income, it looks at social media. The best solution is to be scrupulously honest on your tax return.
It is very cool that "L. A. Law" is finally coming to DVD. Been a long wait.
Since Philip Seymour Hoffman and his long-time girlfriend never married, and he did not engage in any serious estate planning in more than a decade; she's going to pay somewhere between $12 million and $15 million in estate taxes. Maybe marrying just for tax purposes isn't a bad thing.
Ted Nugent isn't really sorry about what he called President Obama.
I'm watching "Patterns of Force", an original Star Trek episode and I'm wondering about something I never noticed before. A line of dialogue makes no sense when examining the episode as a whole. Guess my pedantry just grows in scope as I age.
A 28 year old middle school teacher has been arrested on charges of molestation involving two students. Disgusted? Does your disgust level increase or decrease when you learn it was a woman molesting young boys?
Maria Shriver doesn't need to take a break from her job as an NBC News correspondent while her brother campaigns for a seat on the County Board of Supervisors. It isn't like she'd be covering his campaign anyway.
Walter Ehlers died two days ago at the age of 92. He was one of eight surviving U. S. military men who fought in World War II and received a Medal of Honor. RIP, sir.
Will the Menendez brothers ever get out of prison or see one another again? Why would women marry men who will never see freedom again?
* * *
303 – Roman Emperor Diocletian orders the destruction of the Christian church in Nicomedia, beginning eight years of Diocletianic Persecution.
532 – Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new Orthodox Christian basilica in Constantinople – the Hagia Sophia.
1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
1554 – Mapuche forces, under the leadership of Lautaro, score a victory over the Spanish at the Battle of Marihueñu in Chile.
1739 – Richard Palmer is identified at York Castle, by his former schoolteacher, as the outlaw Dick Turpin.
1778 – American Revolutionary War: Baron von Steuben arrives at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania to help to train the Continental Army.
1820 – Cato Street Conspiracy: A plot to murder all the British cabinet ministers is exposed.
1821 – Alexander Ypsilantis starts the Greek War of Independence in Iași, Wallachia, modern-day Romania.
1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
1847 – Mexican–American War: Battle of Buena Vista – In Mexico, American troops under future president General Zachary Taylor defeat Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna.
1854 – The official independence of the Orange Free State is declared.
1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
1870 – In the United States, post-Civil War military control of Mississippi ends and it is readmitted to the Union.
1883 – Alabama becomes the first U.S. state to enact an anti-trust law.
1885 – Sino-French War: French Army captures Dong Dang.
1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.
1887 – The French Riviera is hit by a large earthquake, killing around 2,000.
1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing "J'accuse", a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
1900 – In South Africa, Boers and British troops fight in the Battle of Hart's Hill.
1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity".
1905 – Chicago, Illinois attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen meet for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.
1909 – The AEA Silver Dart makes the first powered flight in Canada and the British Empire.
1917 – First demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The beginning of the February Revolution.
1918 – Last monarch of Mecklenburg-Strelitz commits suicide.
1927 – President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.
1927 – German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.
1934 – Leopold III becomes King of Belgium.
1941 – Plutonium is first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 – World War II: Japanese submarines fire artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.
1943 – A fire breaks out at St. Joseph's Orphanage, County Cavan, Ireland, killing 36 people (35 of whom are children).
1943 – Greek Resistance: The United Panhellenic Organization of Youth is founded is Greece.
1944 – The Soviet Union begins the forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people from the North Caucasus to Central Asia.
1945 – World War II: During the Battle of Iwo Jima, a group of United States Marines and a commonly forgotten U.S. Navy Corpsman, reach the top of Mount Suribachi on the island and are photographed raising the American flag.
1945 – World War II: The 11th Airborne Division, with Filipino guerrillas, free the captives of the Los Baños internment camp.
1945 – World War II: The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is liberated by combined Filipino and American forces.
1945 – World War II: Capitulation of German garrison in Poznań. The city is liberated by Soviet and Polish forces.
1945 – World War II: The German town of Pforzheim is annihilated in a raid by 379 British bombers.
1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is founded.
1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.
1955 – First meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1958 – Cuban rebels kidnap 5-time world F1 champion Juan Manuel Fangio.
1966 – In Syria, Ba'ath Party member Salah Jadid leads an intra-party military coup that replaces the previous government of General Amin Hafiz, also a Baathist.
1974 – The Symbionese Liberation Army demands $4 million more to release kidnap victim Patty Hearst.
1980 – Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini states that Iran's parliament will decide the fate of the American embassy hostages.
1981 – In Spain, Antonio Tejero attempts a coup d'état by capturing the Spanish Congress of Deputies.
1983 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1987 – Supernova 1987a is seen in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
1991 – Gulf War: Ground troops cross the Saudi Arabian border and enter Iraq, thus beginning the ground phase of the war.
1991 – In Thailand, General Sunthorn Kongsompong leads a bloodless coup d'état, deposing Prime Minister Chatichai Choonhavan.
1998 – In the United States, tornadoes in central Florida destroy or damage 2,600 structures and kill 42.
1999 – Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Öcalan is charged with treason in Ankara, Turkey.
1999 – An avalanche destroys the Austrian village of Galtür, killing 31.
2005 – The controversial French law on colonialism is passed, requiring teachers to teach the "positive values of colonialism". After public outcry, it is repealed at the beginning of 2006.
2007 – A train derails on an evening express service near Grayrigg, Cumbria, England, killing one person and injuring 22. This results in hundreds of points being checked over the UK after a few similar accidents.
2008 – A United States Air Force B-2 Spirit crashes on Guam. It is the first operational loss of a B-2.
2010 – Unknown criminals pour more than 2.5 million liters of diesel oil and other hydrocarbons into the river Lambro, in Northern Italy, sparking an environmental disaster.
Famous Folk Born on February 23rd:
Carl Menger
Victor Fleming
Terence Fisher
Paul Tibbets (pilot of the Enola Gay)
Elston Howard
Majel Barrett (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gPmI0RXbUU)
Tom Osborne
Diane Varsi
Paul Morrissey
Peter Fonda (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cea_SDUKIY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chASooi74VI)
Fred Biletnikoff
Patricia Richardson
Bobby Bonilla
Michael Dell
Emily Blunt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv9EWsmh864 I'm one of the few who actually saw this movie)
Dakota Fanning (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4DBOrany-8)
No movie quotes today because I have to get to Trivia.
posted by me at 2:33 PM
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