Coward. The people wanted it signed. Go with the people not big business.
There was a time when "the people" also wanted slavery and Jim Crow and segregation. No matter how you try to slice and dice it by using Jesus as a justification for your bigotry, it's discrimination. You're the ones wanting special rights: you want to have the right to impose your flawed, narrow-minded religious interpretations onto others who do not believe the same way.
Seeing "Christians" trying to defend this is baffling, although not surprising given their track record of hypocrisy. According to my understand of Christianity, Christians believe that no one is perfect and that we are all sinners, and that no one sin is greater in the eyes of God than another, so why are Republicans and evangelical conservatives targeting this one group of sinners? Sounds to me like it's the Christians who are wanting special rights. Gay people wanting to be treated equally under the law is not special rights, it's equal rights. You know, does this mean it's okay for a business to refuse service to a black person, a Hispanic person, a Jewish person, a Muslim, or even someone who's been divorced or a single mom with children out of wedlock all because "I think that's what Jesus would do?" I don't recall Jesus turning away sinners. If your faith really "compels" you to discriminate against people, maybe you just shouldn't work in the public. Doesn't the Bible also say let he without sin cast the first stones? You "Christians" are not perfect, you're sinners as well, and your sins as heterosexuals are no less sinful than the sins of others and homosexuals. The sooner you all realize that gay people do exist and are not going away, the better we will all be. We've put up with your self-righteous hatred and prejudice for years, now it's time for you all to tolerate that the country has changed and we now have (some of) the same rights under the law as you all do. Why don't you all pick another group of sinners to hate and leave us alone? Or better yet, why don't you actually
be a Christian and do what Jesus actually said to do: love thy neighbor as thyself, feed the hungry, cure the sick, house the homeless, clothe the naked, and spread love and acceptance instead of hate and intolerance?
As for Nathan Deal, I don't call him a FF. He only did this because the money train would stop coming to Georgia had he signed it. You're going to see a lot more of this from Republicans who are torn between the economic conservatives (who want the gay people's money) and the social conservatives (who want nothing to do with the gays) in their party. Nathan Deal decided that money and revenue coming to his state was more important than the Bible and protecting the "muh Jesus said so" values of his state's "Christians." SINNER! This only makes him smarter than Pat McCrory in North Carolina. Had the big businesses not pressured him, he probably would have signed it, so big businesses really are the FFs here. Nathan Deal is just another cowardly old bigoted Republican man blinded by greed.
