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Technorati“To say just get over it to me demonstrates a complete lack of respect for what that person is feeling in terms of their sense that they are facilitating sin,” Feldblum said. “You do not say to someone who feels they are facilitating sin ‘Get over it.’”
But on the other hand, she said homosexuals feel humiliated and hurt when a county clerk or a facility refuses to serve them because they are gay.
“Can you imagine if you are a black person and it is like, “Ok, well no, I don’t serve black people but this person will,” Feldblum said.
She called for a discussion involving both sides to find a way to accommodate both parties so that gay people can have their rights recognized without the cost of “crushing” the liberty of religious people.
“Gay people should understand religious people and religious people should understand gay people more than they do now,” Feldblum states.
And if one’s answer to the religious liberty conflict is to stop same-sex “marriage” then it will be hard to have a reasonable conversation, she said, as opposed to saying, “We understand it is hard for you when you’re conduct is suppressed because your relationships aren’t recognized, but now let’s have a conversation about what that will mean to us as religious people.”
Several times in her talk, Feldblum emphasized that the views she presented on the issue are her own and not the “norm” in the gay rights movement.
The FRC-hosted event opened with the release of a new poll on the political impact of a state marriage amendment. The national survey, conducted by Wilson Research Strategies, found the majority of voters, 58 percent, indicated they would be more likely to vote for a candidate that supports state marriage amendments that define marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
Others on the panel on Thursday included Kevin J. “Seamus” Hasson, founder, chairman of the Board, and president of the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty; Professor Teresa Stanton Collett, University of St. Thomas School of Law; and Nathan J. Diament, director of the Institute for Public Affairs of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America.
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