I'm too tired to be very verbose tonight.  Here's a good resource from the Human Rights Campaign ....

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A landscaping business owned by Christian conservatives is under fire (and some praise) for refusing to work for homosexuals.  Garden Guy owner Sabrina Farber sent an email to Michael Lord and Gary Lackey explaining her reasons for not submitting a bid.  Lord and Lackey forward to friends, urging them to avoid doing business with a company that practices homophobia. 

The world has responded.  The Garden Guy website was beseiged with idiots threatening the owner's family, but also with people praising their stance. One professional landscaping association has adopted a non-discrimination policy. 

"It was just our intent to uphold our rights as small-business owners to choose our clientele," she said. "All the hate, the threats of sodomizing my children, the threats of me being murdered, came out because of a very businesslike straightforward e-mail I sent. The crowd of tolerance and diversity is not so tolerant."

See I hate comments like that.  Since when is being tolerant the provence of any one particular crowd?  Conservative Christians are quick to throw down the T card when it comes to anyone even slightly restricting their rights to be a xtian as they want, so its bogus for Farber to hide behind that one.  And her "crowd" were the ones sending death threats to the Dixie Chicks' families.  No one in my circle of liberal friends (or conservative friends) would condone threatening a family or wishing harm on children. 

But Mrs. Farber said she and her husband also had gotten hundreds of calls and messages offering encouragement and had been touched by that. "We just cried. We have been through so much," Mr. Farber said. "We become accidental crusaders for Christ."

Yes, Mrs. Farber -- Jesus and the City of Houston are proud of your bigotry and give you free reign to be as discriminatory as you want.  You go girl!