Posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:40 AM PST by jimjohn
Fear not, Christian wedding service providers. As many of you are concerned that your faith may soon be tested at your front door when you are presented with an offer you dare not refuse. The legal fees and public pressure soon to follow may put you out of business. As a person experienced in this field (wedding photography), there is a strategy to deal with this.
Gay "marriage" does not and cannot fit the definition of Biblically-defined Holy Matrimony. Therefore, churches simply take themselves out of the "marriage" business and re-affirm their place in the Biblical context of Holy Matrimony.
You could be a photographer for Biblical Holy Matrimony services only, and not market yourself as a general "wedding photographer."
Your real paying customers will understand.
Problem solved.
FReegards!
You have to understand: they are psychotic.
I went over to some to see what they had to say about Brewer after her veto. Needless to say, they were still pornographically assaulting her. They will not be appeased.
There is nothing stopping you from explaining what a “reasonable tip” would be.
No, it’s not a way to “run a business” (that train left the station a long time ago, in the ‘60’s to be more precise) but it is a way to continue commerce in a manner you can live with.
Merely place a sign on the front window that ALL profits from Gay Weddings, “commitment ceremonies”, etc, will be donated to the National Organization for Marriage IN THE NAME OF THE GAY “COUPLE”. . . .put it in the contract as well. And require, also as part of the contract, that a sign announcing the donation MUST be prominently placed at the entrance to the reception, etc. . .
They don’t like the deal ? Sorry, that’s the standard contract you offer. . .
That's too funny. They don't mind forcing Christians to do things because they don't chop your head off if you're rude.
There was another website that proposed converting your business into a private club, and selling a membership for some token amount like $1 before a customer can access your services, since private clubs have much more legal leeway on who they can accept or reject you are free to refuse “membership” to anyone you desire.
This is a coward’s “solution.” The honorable way to deal with this is to simply refuse to serve the perv. They will take you to court. You will probably lose and be assessed a fine. Refuse to pay it. They will close your business and confiscate your property to satisfy the judgment. So don’t have any property. Lease all your hardware from a dummy corporation. Rent your storefront. Hide all your assets. But under no circumstances grant your tacit approval to this perversion. Early martyrs suffered the tortures of hell for their faith. Is it too much to suffer a little inconvenience?
Oskar Schlinder was no less a hero because the Jews he saved were supposedly valuable members of his production shift for the military industrial complex of the nazis.
You are 100% correct, or I should say, you *would be* 100% correct, if we lived in a law-abiding society. The fact of the matter is, we live in a lawless society and that is a much bigger problem than merchants being forced to engage in commerce they do not desire.
We have to get back on a law-based system before we can do much of anything else. The proposal in the original post is just a band-aid. The rest of what you suggest is dead-on, and probably necessary ground-work to get back to a society that follows its rules. We aren't there anymore.
Sadomasochists keep their behavior in the bedroom.
And many queers are into rough sex.
Ask them if they would have an issue with you putting up a public statement that you photograph homosexual “wedding” ceremonies under threat of an activist court system.
If they decline your services file a lawsuit that they are discriminating against you on the basis of your religious beliefs.
Printers are not required to publish books/magazines that they find personally offensive.
Freedom of the press does not force the printer’s hand. Neither should it force the photographer to “capture” the moment. There are artistic considerations.
Dennis Prager said that he doesn’t accept clients in his duties as a lawyer that he has personal conflict with (say challenging a state’s prohibition on same sex marriage, etc.).
There is an intimate relationship between the client and the service provider. The gods in black dresses on the bench be damned.
I think these Christian bakers and photographers are taking entirely too much on themselves.
Baking a cake or taking photos isn’t really helping anybody to commit sodomy.
Meanwhile, the schools are teaching sodomy to five-year-olds. People are voting for pro-abortion politicians—without whom there would be no persecution of the Church, no pro-sodomy propaganda, etc.
The bakers and photographers are being left out to turn slowly, slowly in the wind, while no one else is doing much of anything to resist the tyranny of the abortionist-sodomites.
When exactly did we lose our stomach for a fight? Gen. Patton would be slapping us all!
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> they were still pornographically assaulting her.
You know, the modern left seems to be fixated on their crotches and excretions. They are obsessive about it and insist on using the most foul language to express it.
I’d say it was infantile, but I think you’re right.
They are psychotic.
The cake baker always has the recipe for a cake that might not be to the taste of everyone. Nothing like a cake with more than a dash of salt and a minimum of sugar.
Some people don’t want to fight City Hall, they just want to do business because that’s all they can afford to do. I’m not going to call people cowards for seeking work-arounds to support their families, and I don’t have much respect for chicken-hawks who do call them cowards.
Well, I'm not a chicken hawk -- I've walked the walk, and have a 30% disability from the Army to prove it -- and I will call them cowards. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem, and the problem is we've been far too cowardly and meek on our side for far too long. The time has long since come to draw a line in the sand, and stare those suckers down. I have no use for people who won't fight.
Sorry -- just MNSHO.
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