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LINK Portland Considers Protection Against Discrimination For Atheists, Agnostics

FTA: Portland Commissioner Amanda Fritz is introducing an ordinance to extend the protections against discrimination in the city’s civil rights code to people who do not believe in a god or gods.

zblaze 7 Feb 18
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I would find this to be a needed thing in the emerging Trumpworld. The extreme right seems to hate atheists and other things equally.

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Sad, but necessary, that there has to be legislation to tell people to be open-minded and accepting of anyone not like themself....

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Freedom of religion should include freedom from religion.
Religions is a cancer.
I should know. I survived stage 4 brain cancer.
Religion is cancer.

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Honestly, I’m shocked Portland hasn’t done this already

Marz Level 7 Feb 19, 2019
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So I guess this means the Saint Albans bakery has to make the cake for an agnostic wedding.

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This seems unnecessary.

@PalacinkyPDX I don’t know. It just seems that if someone wants to descriminate me for my lack of beliefs, then that is their prerogative.

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I'm glad to hear it, but yet again I just think they should say no one deserves to be mistreated for any reason and leave it at that.

In a perfect society! Therein lies the problem, we are imperfect for myriad reasons. The first imperfect example usually is the religious...

@Rustee Good point.

Leave it to the lawyers, one would think the Constitution has it covered; unlike the guarantee the press recieves apparently everyone else has to fight to secure their rights under the law. 😠

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