GOP lawmaker: Gay people “don’t have a right to be served in every single store”
Source: Salon
Thursday, Mar 5, 2015 04:30 PM CST
GOP lawmaker: Gay people “don’t have a right to be served in every single store”
Oklahoma's Joseph Silk defends anti-LGBT "license to discriminate" legislation
Luke Brinker
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State Sen. Joseph Silk (R-OK) (Credit: OKGOP/YouTube screenshot
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As the country marches toward nationwide marriage equality and polls show record levels of support for same-sex marriage, there’s a fierce anti-gay backlash underway that imperils some of the most basic rights of the country’s LGBT citizens: Under the guise of protecting religious liberty, conservative lawmakers across the country are proposing bills that would allow businesses and individuals not to serve gay people, provided that they discriminate based on their religious beliefs. Among the states to consider such license-to-discriminate legislation is Oklahoma, where the bill’s chief Republican sponsor flatly states that gay people “don’t have a right to be served in every single store.”
State Sen. Joseph Silk made that statement in an interview with the New York Times, which examines the broader push for so-called religious freedom laws in a story published online Thursday. Silk told the Times that he while he knows real, breathing homosexuals and even considers some his friends, he nevertheless sees gay people as the top threat to religious liberty. “The L.G.B.T. movement is the main thing, the primary thing that’s going to be challenging religious liberties and the freedom to live out religious convictions,” Silk said. “And I say that sensitively, because I have homosexual friends.”
“They don’t have a right to be served in every single store,” he added. “People need to have the ability to refuse service if its violates their religious convictions.”
Give Silk some credit. While other supporters of legislation allowing anti-LGBT discrimination glide over the measures’ real-life consequences, he readily owns up to them: If Silk’s bill becomes law, it would mean businesses and individuals denying services to gay people, whom he considers unworthy of equal protection under the law.
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2015/03/05/gop_lawmaker_gay_people_don%e2%80%99t_have_a_right_to_be_served_in_every_single_store/
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is part of his natural makeup...of course, he could fake it, and wear a Rand Paul squirrel on his head, and hide his natural appearance ... but those of us who know a squirrel when we see one, either disguised as a congressman, or sitting on a congressman's head, why, we know.....
Oh wait...gotta toss in one of these for the irony-impaired...
Can't be too careful these days~!
--imm
Tragic. 
He can spot gays a mile away? Who knew?
He should speak for himself - bald and wearing a "pink" shirt and all.
Sheesh, what a f**kbag.
discrimination, hate speech and acts of horrible violence. It's all over the place! Here's what they seem to want to return to!
- K&R
although I'm a Christian), then should every store owner have the right to decide which "sinful" people they won't serve.
I mean, let's be fair! Liars? Divorced people? Adulterers?
The stupidity.
Fuckwad...
but it's been removed!! 
