Hemant Mehta has a good post at The Friendly Atheist about an article in the Washington Post about how Christians and the LGBTQ community need to compromise. He's not sympathetic:
As for both sides giving something, just what are we supposed to give up?
To be sure, Rodgers says Christians should be the ones taking that first step, and that no resolution will make everybody happy, so both sides have to give something.
But trying to appease both sides is a problem when one side did nothing wrong.
Consider what same-sex couples are requesting: The right to be treated the same way as straight couples. The ability to buy the same products as straight couples. The chance to be seen as humans instead of monsters.
What do conservative Christians want? The ability to discriminate. And they do it by pretending that selling a cake to a gay couple makes them an integral part of a wedding they would never be invited to in the first place.
These aren’t two sides of the same coin. They’re different currencies.
As for both sides giving something, just what are we supposed to give up?
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