I seem to remember Jesus hanging out with the sinners a lot more than the righteous people. He made it pretty clear that we were supposed to hate the sin but love the sinners. Serving a person in a restaurant would be a far cry from being forced to perform an abortion. The first would be simply doing your job for a person you might disagree with while the second would mean actually performing a service that would be against your religious beliefs. Christians are supposed to share the love of God to the lost world, and I really don't see how performing the services you do for straight people and not for gays would be in any fashion fulfilling the great command of spreading the Gospel. Maybe I'm missing something but so far I've been pretty embarrassed by the responses of my fellow Christians.
If you are a waiter, you are simply feeding them supper, not being forced to suck their whatevers. Seriously, what am I missing here? People are hiding behind their "religion" so that they can spew their twisted hatred. I'm truly afraid that God is going to look less kindly on those who should have known better (Christians who behave like this) than homosexuals who only received what apparently is "God's Hatred" from the very people who were charged with showing them God's love and mercy. No wonder it is so hard to get a person to listen to my beliefs... they get this bastardized version that I don't think would attract anyone.
I am really ashamed of all of you. (Not that it matters to anyone here).
To all of you who may be LGBT, whatever, God loves you... period. I don't necessarily agree with your lifestyle but I definitely do not condone the way you are being treated by some "Christians". Please know that not all of us are filled with that hatred, and please don't hate all of us for the actions of the few.
(edit added) - One more thing. Considering the current liberal leaning of our country and how anti-Christian it is becoming, what will you do when they start passing laws stating that businesses no longer have to serve Christians. I would personally rejoice because I would immediately know which businesses I would want to support. Gays probably will feel the same way once they have time to think about it. (end edit)

I so agree with you. It is funny, but I do not think that anyone has taken the time to read the contents of this bill. It DOES NOT SINGLE OUT GAY people. In fact, it only broadens and expands a law that is already on the books regarding freedom of religion. In no section does it specify GAY, BLACK, YELLOW, RED....or any other skin tone or sexual preferences. It simply says that to defend your freedom of religion, from law suite a person must meet specific criteria.

I just love some of the other posters that hear or read what the biased media puts out and RUNS their mouth as if they read the bill.

Thanks for the news bulletin.

1.In the space of one week, there has been the Arizona veto.

2.Today, a U.S. district court ruled against Texas law that bans gay unions.

3.The Kansas state senate voted down the lower house's bill allowing discrimination based on "religion".

4.The Indiana state legislature decided to take a pass on legislation similar to Arizona's right-to-hate legislation.

You think the religious right will understand that they lost the culture war and very few people(especially young voters) want to buy whatever they are selling. Even the red states and business communities have turned against these folks. Time to adapt.......or go out of business.