First published at 17:24 UTC on June 8th, 2018.
So, Jeff Amyx, owner of Amyx Hardware Store / Amyx Hardware and Roofing Supplies in Grainger County, TN has a sign on his business storefront that reads: NO GAYS ALLOWED.
My opinion as a gay man? LEAVE HIS PERSONAL VIEWS ALONE JUST AS HE IS WANTING…
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So, Jeff Amyx, owner of Amyx Hardware Store / Amyx Hardware and Roofing Supplies in Grainger County, TN has a sign on his business storefront that reads: NO GAYS ALLOWED.
My opinion as a gay man? LEAVE HIS PERSONAL VIEWS ALONE JUST AS HE IS WANTING TO LEAVE YOURS ALONE.
You're infringing on his civil liberties by forcing your actions on him and his business. If he wants to keep you out, boycott, vent online, leave (actual) reviews revolving about your actual experience on Google, Yelp, etc., but you should - N-O-T:
- Infringe on his constitutional rights: he can run his business how he sees fit and face the consequences or successes of that action and allow the free market to Naturally determine his fate/success.
- You are attacking him PERSONALLY for his life-experience and views that he himself only knows and got the conclusion to adapt in his everyday life. You have yours & he has his. Both are protected items as Americans, and - at the moment - you are freakishly offending his rights of expression. How has he attacked YOURS by wanting to restrict his business from gays? He hasn't. YOU HAVE OTHER OPTIONS!
- To my fellow LGBTQ-3.1459 community: Get this through your heads: you will NOT be loved or respected by EVERYONE. Get over it, move on and live your life outside of being a regular VICTIM. You will love the freedoms it allows if you do.
We don't need government to select MORE protected classes - the more they interfere, the more we are controlled. Respect his personal bigotry and disdain for the Gay Community and equal respect for your disdain of his beliefs as well.
I don't side with his views, but I DO side with his right to his expression and association. I respect yours as well just as I do his - no favoritism, it's all equal.
Also, Allen B. West wrote a great article on this subject and even brought up an interesting note regarding a Barnard College Professor named Jennifer Finney Boylan who suggests a Constitutional mandate of a 'Dign..
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