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Religious Extremist Cabbies Refuse to Promote ‘Gay Games’
First it was wedding cake bakers, then photographers, and now it’s cabbies. When will GLAAD, the ACLU, and the courts rid our society of these intolerant Christian fascists forcing our LGBT brothers and sisters back into their closets?!
Roughly 25 Muslim drivers dispatched to Cleveland Hopkins International Airport are refusing to drive cabs adorned with advertising for the region’s upcoming Gay Games, citing religious reasons.
Two of the three companies operating at Ohio’s largest airport were informed by the drivers — one-third of the airport’s total fleet — last week that they will no longer participate in the airport’s dedicated taxicab program. The companies, Ace and Yellow Taxi Cab, were told by the drivers that their decision was based on religious reasons, airport spokeswoman Jacqueline Mayo told FoxNews.com.
Whoa, hold on… these are Muslims refusing service to LGBT causes? Never mind.
Hey, does anyone have a peaceful Catholic mass we can picket instead?
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So, in order to comment on this post I guess we first need to determine if we would rather be labeled “Homophobic” or “Islamophobic”.
Exercising their freedom of association rights without fear. I guess it would be considered homophobic to admire the drivers, but I would say in this instance, I admire them for taking a stand. Are we supposed to be afraid to express ourselves on any position that can’t be considered politically correct at the time we take it? Did the president take his initial stand on gay marriage out of fear, and then change it when it became more acceptable?
Conversely, which civil liberty will the ACLU champion?
We know from the Hirsi Ali incident that Islam trumps Woman, Black, Battered-Woman, and Genitally Mutilated. But what should be the expected knee-jerk reaction from the Left in a Gay vs. Islam face-off?
Does the Left have some official Hierarchy of Victimhood or decoder ring that tells them who to root for in these types of disputes?
They just go Very Quiet. and change the subject. The Left requires Reality to conform to its views, bemoaning the unfairness when it doesn’t. It is an infantile view of the World. What’s next? Hold their breath til they turn blue? I wouldn’t be surprised…
Hey trying getting a cab in the Minneapolis airport holding a six pack and a seeing-eye dog !
Or a seeing-eye hog.
@Vance Richards- “We know from the Hirsi Ali incident that Islam trumps Woman, Black, Battered-Woman, and Genitally Mutilated. But what should be the expected knee-jerk reaction from the Left in a Gay vs. Islam face-off?
Does the Left have some official Hierarchy of Victimhood or decoder ring that tells them who to root for in these types of disputes?”
Indeed they do. Women’s rights, ‘setasides’ and affirmative action for them supersede equality under the law and men’s rights. As we saw when California recently passed a law allowing boys who feel like women to use girl’s rest- and locker rooms in schools, gay rights trump women’s rights. And gay activists should worry, since in the hierarchy of victimhood, multi-culturalism and therefore Islam are at the top of the totem pole.
We can be both.
Racist.
The epitome of moral authority on the left would be an imam who performs abortions on the side, for an exclusively lesbian clientele.
If those who discriminate against Christians (gay-rights, atheists) thought that Christians would murder them for that, perhaps they would not discriminate against Christians. People fear the reactions of angry Muslims, who have been known to kill those who they think have blasphemed their Prophet. Nobody fears the reaction of an angry Christian.