I hardly think a donation like this qualifies as being a loose cannon. Your point though about employers needing to protect themselves is a good one. Unfortunately this kind of thought fascism will result in organizations with limited initiative and creativity. It also creates wishy-washy leadership that is prone to go any way the wind blows.

The southern poverty law center is nothing more than a private organization which is in no way empowered to designate any organization as hate or non hate. It is just a bunch of pointy headed liberals pointing fingers at groups they do not agree with.

Your point is exactally on the mark. The homosexual lobby is particularly enamored of the idea that rhe rest of us not only accept but embrace their lifestyle and that the constitution somehow requires this. However, The federal government through workplace regulation and the civil courts has significantly reduced freedom of speech and association through threat and intimidation in the court system. Try one day calling a female co-worker toots!

Not that can reproduce. Show me the offspring of a homosexual union, living, able to breed and I'll step down. But you and I know this CANNOT happen. It is perversion, lust and sexual desire, but NOT science. There are TWO sexes.

1) It does have more than one definition.
Challenge: Post ONE that shows that "discrimination" means "to engage in persecution".
Post your source, please.

2) We discriminate all the time. I have no interest in having a black male carry my baby, in a Chinese female play Hamlet, or in a former criminal baby sitting my daughter. We have every right to choose these things and often good reason for doing so. Ignoring our differences completely is silly.

3) Yes, it is an association:
2 a connection or cooperative link between people or organizations: he developed a close association with the university | the program was promoted in association with the Department of Music. (Apple Dictionary, but feel free to look elsewhere).

4) CHALLENGE: Find me ONE LAW that forces people to serve customers they choose not to in the United States.

You claim: "They can choose their clients and their partners, but they cannot choose their customers."

That has no basis in any law I have ever seen. Please post accordingly, or I must assume you made that up completely, which will make my point just fine.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 covers PUBLIC, not private institutions. Only in cases dealing with the Commerce Clause could the law be applied to private businesses.
Otherwise: "In the landmark Civil Rights Cases the United States Supreme Court had ruled that Congress did not have the power to prohibit discrimination in the private sector, thus stripping the Civil Rights Act of 1875 of much of its ability to protect civil rights. The Supreme Court has subsequently struck down parts of civil rights laws on the grounds that the Fourteenth Amendment does not give Congress the power to prohibit private sector discrimination."

Even then, it means: "We the reserve the right to deny service to anyone,” as long as the business does not discriminate based on the race, sex, nationality, or religion of the patron and again, covered by the Commerce Clause between states.

It says NOTHING about objectionable behavior.

So it's not a birth defect, which I agree, it'd not a genetic condition since there are actually only two sexes, You have stated elsewhere it's not a disease or a medical condition that can be treated with medicine, which I also agree. So what we are left with is - surprise - a lifestyle, a choice, a decision. I believe that it may be more of a state of confusion, but whatever the cause, the result is that being homosexual is a choice. A dang poor one in my opinion, but I really don't care what floats your boat until it interferes with my choices, including who I will do business with - or not.
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Maph: How am I persecuting you by not serving you in my business?

Am I persecuting you if I never start my business? Do I exist to serve you?

Does that include being persecuted by people who want you to be their slave? If you don't want to work for somebody, but the gov. or legal authority says you must or suffer fines or imprisonment, aren't you being enslaved?

I know you won't understand this, it's called being free to decide your own destiny. You want every businessman to be enslaved to work for people who's lifestyle they disagree with. THAT sir, is persecution.

...except that abortion is an extension of the right to privacy as decided in _roe vs wade_, under the ninth amendment's reservation of rights to the people. So, no, the tenth amendment's reservation of powers doesn't trump the ninth's reservation or rights. Had you not used the ambiguous "19 enumerated rights" (they're enumerated POWERS, powers don't trump individual rights), it would have been painfully obvious vice obvious to anyone who'd actually read up on the issue and not had it spoonfed to them

Hear, Hear. +1

All? So the right to regulate abortion? Federal law dictates when and how a woman may exercise that right. I don't remember states having individual thresholds for "viability of a fetus".