Are gays and the political left 'targeting' Christians when it comes to these religious freedom laws?

Ir's pretty clear that Christians are bringing it on themselves by trying to legalize discrimination. They're not targeting Christians, they're targeting legislation that makes it okay to treat gays like second class citizens.

Well, when was the last time you saw gay activists targeting Muslim bakeries or florists?

No one is denying normal services to gay customers. (Okay, you might find ONE wingnut who wants to do that, but he would be the exception.) The Christian vendors who are being targeted serve gay customers and some have had openly gay employees. They only draw the line when they are asked to take a participatory role in weddings they don't believe in.

Designing and setting up floral arrangements for a wedding, or decorating a custom cake and delivering it, involves a level of participation that violates these vendors' consciences. It's not quite the same as just selling a dozen cupcakes or a ready-made bouquet to a customer who just happens to be gay.

Should a gay baker be forced to decorate a cake for, say, a fundraiser for a politician who runs on a platform opposing gay marriage?

Yes, if a religious person specifically targets a gay person then they can stand up for themselves. But I am Muslim, and yes gays tend to target Christians more than Muslims as Christianity is a predominant in the west and the west is liberal and soft, so gays are accepted whereas they wouldn't be accepted in conservatives countries by Islam either, like in Iran etc.

So gays in the west will target whatever faith is predominant there, and disagrees with homosexuality/ sodomy (anal sex and any gay/lesbian sex), which happens to be Christianity. But if Islam was predominant in the west, Islam would be targeted more.

So it is just by chance that Christianity in the west suffers bearing the brunt of gays targeting them.

If gays stand and oppose a church, for example, or any place of worship then that is targeting that beliefs unfairly. So in self defence its not bad, like the way us Muslims in the west should not attack Islamophobes first, but only rise to it if they attack us first.

Since christians are the ONLY ones trying to force "religious freedom laws" onto everyone else, they are the ONLY target.

- I say the Christians bring it upon themselves, by proposing, promoting and enacting anti-gay legislation and policies

All intelligent peole say that, which is why it passes by most fundies.

If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension, that the constitution framed in the convention, where I had the honor to preside, might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it; and, if I could now conceive that the general government might ever be so administered as to render the liberty of conscience insecure, I beg you will be persuaded, that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. For you doubtless remember, that I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshiping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience.

--George Washington

No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than

that which protects the rights of conscience against the

enterprises of the civil authority.

--Thomas Jefferson

The Christians bring the hate of them upon themselves. The rest of us understand that this would be a much better world if we treated others as we would like to be treated.

Homosexuality is a sin and it is unnatural and promotes crime and disease that should be avoided but I believe that

homosexuals though should be treated with kindness and respect and they should be allowed to live their own lives as long as it does not affect other people.

I am against homosexual marriage because it promotes homosexuality but I do not think that homosexuals should be persecuted.

Hate the sickness but care for the sick person.

Cheers and God Bless :)

Without a doubt some gays of an aggressive social activist mimd are doing it. Not all of them but some of them. No doubt in my mind.

It seems people think Christians think about gay people all day, we don't but I think you must.

If I say I like chicken nuggets, and you tell me I'm going to hell for liking chicken nuggets, I'm going to dislike you for being rude/disrespectful to my choices.

You brought it on yourself.

So yes, I believe the Christians brought it on themselves.