Who mentioned the Bible, Cherubs, Politics?
Not me!
Who mentioned group-specific rights? Nobody, but you're blathering about it anyway. I doubt you've even looked at the links, you were in such a hurry to exploit another opportunity to soapbox us with your opinions. I just think it's funny when people purport to know of specific intents and actions of a Creator that aren't mentioned in holy texts.
While it's true that Man has only those rights that he can defend this doesn't change anything. The Founding Fathers weren't perfect but they drew their guidance from the basic tenets of what's referred as "Natural law" which believes that something created us. Doesn't say who or what, just that we as humans have a Creator. That this Creator gave us rights that occur naturally and that brings us back around to man only having those rights he can defend.
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Nice circular logic. Natural law concerns nature as it is, not as it came to be, so any creator is irrelevant. The subject goes back to at least Aristotle, but there's no conceptualization of individual rights being a part of its corpus until nearly 1800 years after he kicked the bucket. But even if for your sake we
assume there is a Creator, what is your justification for arguing that said Creator knowingly and willfully conferred rights to humankind, other than the figurative language of 17th century philosophers and the founding generation? You're right, they weren't perfect, and just because people write things on paper doesn't make them true, even if that paper is The Declaration of Independence.
Brain hemorrhages and intestinal parasites are also Created, exist in Nature, adhere to Natural law, and are therefore also conferred by a Creator to mankind for our benefit, right? I'm just using your logic. Rights don't "occur" naturally; apples and thunderstorms "occur" in nature. Abstract conceptualizations such as "rights" and "Thursday" did not "exist" in any form until there were human brains to formulate them.
Therefore if you believe as I do that rights belong only to individuals then it's impossible for "gay rights" to exist. At least in a philosophical way.
How do you know? You can't even establish that a Creator conferred rights yet you know who they're for and how they're supposed to be put into effect? Where's the fine print on what the Creator conferred?
Look, I have more than a few gay and/or black friends and I know for a fact that they get a Sh*tty deal sometimes. I also know two other things. First one is, I can never know what it's like to be them. Second is, they are not my hyphenated friends. No Claudine my black friend or Laura my gay friend. The are just Laura and Claudine, treated as the individuals they are, not as part of any group.
See when I look at Claudine and I go to place her in a group it would be the group titled "Very Hot Chicks", Should would confer additional rights upon her for being beautiful even at age 50? Should we confer additional rights upon Intelligent airline workers? You'd be part of that group. How about aging road warriors (50+)? Or maybe just those with Gray hair? Rights belong to individuals, to do otherwise is to pervert natural law and the Founding Documents.
That's not even what this thread is about. I know it's really important for you to bristle and hiss at every perceived ideological threat that bunches your undies but we're discussing a simple list of companies; nobody's demanding special rights or treatment. It's just an inventory of company policies and some arbitrary ranking.
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