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I have seen a quite a few instances where business owners have been penalized for refusing services to the alphabet soup (lgbtqrstuv...) community due to their sincerely held religious beliefs and faith.

I stand with these business owners.

What's next? Are we going to require pastors and preachers to wed homosexuals? Are we going to require private Christian schools to hire atheists? When are we going to draw the line?

When I say animalistic love, I don't mean love with no restraints. I mean love where you will NEVER be happy unless you spend the rest of your days with the object of that love, and being loved back. The type of love where really it isn't even about love anymore, it's about obsession.

That doesn't sound amazing, right? But wait, isn't that what many wildly successfulromance movies and novels are about?

One perfect example is The Tearsmith. This movie focuses on two orphans who fall in love. But the boy falls in love almost a decade before she does, and during that decade he is destroyed internally while trying to control his obsession with her. The Tearsmith ranked #2 in the world for 3 consecutive days.

I understand how it can be a confidence booster/romantic for someone care about you so much, but in my mind obsession is incredibly detrimental to the well-being of the Giver AND the Receiver. Obsession can lead to physical, mental, and emotional abuse against the Receiver and anyone who stands between the Receiver and the Giver. Obsession destroys all parties.

So, what's your opinion?

Republicans under Trump have increasingly advocated violence as a way to gain power because they know their unpopular positions cannot lead their candidates to victory in free and fair elections. In this moment it appears they are projecting their own behavior onto Biden and the Democrats, blaming them for advocating violence when in fact, Biden and the Democrats have tried hard to enact commonsense gun safety laws and have consistently condemned the violent language and normalizing of political violence by Republicans - which they routinely write off as a "just joking."

Biden spoke to the nation, warning that Americans need to “lower the temperature in our politics and to remember, while we may disagree, we are not enemies. We’re neighbors. We’re friends, coworkers, citizens. And, most importantly, we are fellow Americans. And we must stand together.” He condemned the violence, noting that “[a] former president was shot” and “an American citizen killed while simply exercising his freedom to support the candidate of his choosing…. There is no place in America for this kind of violence or for any violence ever. Period. No exceptions. We can’t allow this violence to be normalized.”

The framers of the Constitution, he said, “created a democracy that gave reason and balance a chance to prevail over brute force. That’s the America we must be, an American democracy where arguments are made in good faith, an American democracy where the rule of law is respected, an American democracy where decency, dignity, fair play aren’t just quaint notions, but living, breathing realities.”

Biden rejected the weird idea that criticizing the Republicans’ extremism was polarizing. While they can “criticize my record and offer their own vision for this country,” he said, “I’ll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand up for our Constitution and the rule of law, to call for action at the ballot box, no violence on our streets. That’s how democracy should work.”