Anti-Gay Group: Buying From Small Businesses That Don’t Discriminate Is Bullying Christians

If you ever wanted to know if a corporation can have a persecution complex, your answer may be here. Last week, as The New Civil Rights Movement reported, local Mississippi small businesses afraid an impending “religious liberty” law would hurt their sales, banded together to tell their customers that they do not discriminate against LGBT people. “We don’t discriminate — if you’re buying, we’re selling,” the campaign stickers read.

LOOK: Top Anti-Gay Group Attacks Small Business Owners’ Pro-LGBT Campaign As ‘Anti-Religious Freedom’

Hair salons, bakeries, and other local, small merchants agreed to place these stickers in their windows and on their doors, so LGBT customers would know they wouldn’t be turned away jut because they’re gay — now that they legally could.

Earlier this month, Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed into law the Mississippi Religious Freedom Restoration Act that lets Christians — or anyone of any faith — off the hook. As of July 1, they will be able to say, “We don’t serve gay people here,” and the subject of their anti-gay hate will have zero legal recourse except to turn around and walk away. They can’t sue, because the person of faith is merely exercising their right to practice their faith as they see fit.

(Of course, two can play that game, but that never dawned on the anti-gay Republican lawmakers who pushed the bill though.)

Last week, a vice president for a top Christian legal firm — the folks that defended Prop 8 in court — called the “We don’t discriminate” campaign, “absurd anti-religious freedom.” 

These small business owners are merely trying to serve their customers and not lose money, and these large corporations that actually benefit from this division don’t care about them. 

Enter the Mississippi-based American Family Association, a certified anti-gay hate group. 

Buddy Smith, American Family Association’s executive vice president, told the AFA that customers who do business with stores that have the stickers in their windows “are agreeing with these businesses that Christians no longer have the freedom to live out the dictates of their Christian faith and conscience.” 

“It’s not really a buying campaign, but it’s a bully campaign,” he added, “it’s being carried out by radical homosexual activists who intend to trample the freedom of Christians to live according to the dictates of scripture.  

“They don’t want to hear that homosexuality is sinful behavior – and they wish to silence Christians and the church who dare to believe this truth.”

Wow.

Getting your hair done, or buying a cake, a dress, or a card from someone who doesn’t support discrimination is bullying and silencing Christians.

Reminds me of this.   

Hat tip: Box Turtle Bulletin