Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for April 03, 2015

Oy vey!

Brilliant portrayal of the double edged sword which this insane Indiana idea could easily become.

Mind you, the bakers and florists are mostly decoys; it’s the life-necessary services that would also be allowed to discriminate that would cause real problems.

Wait… who would perform executions in Texas if it violates a commandment?

Would everyone have to find an agnostic/atheist lawyer if you were going to pay him/her to lie for you?

Are we to believe that folks just pick and choose which parts of their religious texts that they decide to follow?

Remember how Jews became bankers because of Christian religious strictures against lending money at interest.

Oh Snap!!

This comic posts a day or more earlier on DailyKos.com; a commenter there linked to this video:

West Wing smackdown.

Freedom, like all good things, has its limits. Just as your right to swing your arms ends just where the other man’s nose begins, your freedom of religion ends at the point where you impose it on others.Many of the supporters and most of the detractors of the Indiana law believe that it gives people the right to impose their beliefs on others. Whether it actually does that depends on which lawyer has the most persuasive argument. The point may be moot in the case of LGBT discrimination since the lawmakers are rushing to close that particular loophole but that doesn’t mean that it actually promotes freedom.

Let’s put this into perspective. Indiana, specifically the governor at the time, Mr. Welsh, banned the song “Louie, Louie” by the Kingsmen, because “it was laced with profanity”…. Now don’t get me wrong, I like Indiana. I lived in South Bend for many years. I have a child and a grandchild who were born in Indiana. But, having said that, I will admit the Great State of Indiana has pulled some odd stunts.(yes, I posted this in Ted Rall’s strip also)

Would Rastafarians be allowed to smoke ganja under religious freedom laws?

I’m still waiting to hear an announcement of the First Indiana Church of the Gay Gay Gay.

I think it’s amusing that the prohibitions concerning homosexuality were added to the Bible around the fifth century in order to help cut down problems in the monasteries.There are a couple of good books out on the subject.

It was just a few months ago that a minister was being sued by a gay couple for refusing to perform their wedding, though it went against his beliefs.

Superb cartoon!

I should have specified I was asking for a citation for “It was just a few months ago that a minister was being sued by a gay couple for refusing to perform their wedding, though it went against his beliefs.”

Once again, Tom The Dancing Bug purposely denigrates us, misstates and ridicules our position, and deliberately conflates that which we understand God has called an abomination with some minor little Israelite technicality. Homosexuality is more than just sexual confusion, it is a perversion against the order of nature and an offense to God and man. Homosexuality is the most promiscuous of the perversions, it lowers the status of women in every society that welcomes it, and it sexualizes children and makes them into prey for pederasty. And here comes Tom’s cartoon depicting the always-backward Christian homophobe baker who refuses to sell a cake to Neal and Bob. Panel after panel, the Christian dunce is shown to be a hypocrite loser and finally the homos return to save the day after the Christian repents for his gay-hatred. Folks, Jesus did not command his followers to embrace or tolerate homosexuality — and we already know this is an abomination before God — and there is certainly no scripture that encourages legalizing such a thing where it is presently not lawful.

How about I want a cake from a gay baker that says “Homos are disgusting”? Is that going to be allowed? Just who is going to be allowed to discriminate, eh?

And Liberal Atheists strike out again. The “eye of a needle” comment is referring to someone who loves his money more than he loves God.