Should discrimination against gays be allowed?

[McCulloch]

Should landlords, employers, educators, government agencies and persons conducting business be allowed, by law, to discriminate against homosexual persons solely on the basis of the person's sexual orientation?

Should churches be allowed to discriminate against homosexual persons?

[steen]

Of course Christians fight back with violence, what about all the murders of gays in the South, commited by good-old-boy Christians.

Cephus,
Woah woah woah, let's not get carried away here. I happen to be very partial of the South. With all of it's problems, violence against gays should not be relegated to a southern good ole-boy thing.

But then, you also have Army of God and their celebration of those who murder physicians for preforming abortions:
http://www.armyofgod.com/heroes.html
And if memory serves me right, the KKK also reveled in the "we are Christian warriers" kind of stuff.

[Cephus]

Woah woah woah, let's not get carried away here. I happen to be very partial of the South. With all of it's problems, violence against gays should not be relegated to a southern good ole-boy thing. It's a pan-american thing (not to mention other parts of the world) so cut us a little slack down here- most of us are trying very hard to change some of the more "backward" things about life in the south. Just look at Nashville- why they've erected a new and improved Parthenon to add a little culture to their small neck of the woods!

While I'm sure there is violence against gays everywhere, when you usually hear about it in the media, it's those good-old-boys in their pickup trucks dragging gays around because "them faggots are evil, the Bible says so". I don't remember the last national news story about something like that happening in New York or California, do you?