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Couple Fined For Refusing To Host Gay Wedding Shuts Down Venue
Daily Caller ^ | 08/29/2014 | Rachel Stoltzfoos

Posted on 08/29/2014 3:47:45 PM PDT by Rusty0604

A Christian couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host a lesbian wedding on their New York farm has decided to close the venue rather than violate their religious beliefs.

Cynthia and Robert Gifford decided not to host ceremonies anymore, other than those already scheduled, Alliance Defending Freedom attorney James Trainor told The Blaze. ”Since the order essentially compelled them to do all ceremonies or none at all, they have chosen the latter in order to stay true to their religious convictions, even though it will likely hurt their business in the short run,” he said

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TOPICS: Religion
KEYWORDS: commisarcuomo; gaymafia; homosexualagenda
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To: inchworm

To be honest, at this point I am hoping the Islamic terrorists wipe out the homos and their atheistic enablers. Did God not send the Babylonians to punish the degenerates?


21 posted on 08/29/2014 4:02:46 PM PDT by Viennacon
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To: Rusty0604
A Christian couple fined $13,000 for refusing to host a lesbian wedding......This and the show LONGMIRE canceled means the end is near! LONG
22 posted on 08/29/2014 4:05:42 PM PDT by baddog 219
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To: Rusty0604

The militant homosexuals are not satisfied to live and let live. They are about FORCING homosexuality on everyone. They will not be satisfied until they can force everyone to publicly celebrate their perversion.


23 posted on 08/29/2014 4:07:08 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The cure has become worse than the disease. Support an end to the WOD now.)
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To: Rusty0604

It’s called the Mark of the Beast.

One cannot buy, sell or eat without conforming to the thinking and acting a wicked society demands.


24 posted on 08/29/2014 4:07:45 PM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Tai_Chung
Exactly what does “Freedom of Association” mean?

Whatever it means, those words are not in the Constitution.

The Constitution recognizes the right the peaceably assemble, and the right of free speech.

Assembling, and assembling to speak, and assembling to speak to seek redress from the government, combine to infer a freedom of association.

Along with the right to peaceably assemble, comes the right to choose to NOT assemble. That's what is at issue here. People, on their own private property, are choosing to NOT assemble, and the people they choose to NOT assemble with do not like it.

-PJ

25 posted on 08/29/2014 4:08:33 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Tai_Chung
Exactly what does “Freedom of Association” mean?

Your free to associate with whom the leftist Nazi's demand you associate with.

26 posted on 08/29/2014 4:09:33 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Let them eat Lead.)
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To: Rusty0604

First amendment surrenders to marriage equality...hope those on the Right who support gay “marriage” see that “marriage” was never the goal of the gays.


27 posted on 08/29/2014 4:09:49 PM PDT by RginTN
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To: baddog 219

>>This and the show LONGMIRE canceled means the end is near!

NOOOOOOOOO. That’s my favorite show.


28 posted on 08/29/2014 4:15:40 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: Rusty0604

Obviously, the faggots wont be stopped by the courts or our elected officials.

Two choices are available :

Capitulate, or resistance


29 posted on 08/29/2014 4:17:04 PM PDT by Rome2000
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To: Rusty0604

Whatever happened to the signs which read:

“WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE”

?????


30 posted on 08/29/2014 4:17:46 PM PDT by G Larry (I'm tired of people not recognizing sarcasm!)
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To: Rusty0604

It just takes a little creativity to get around such oppression. For example, offer “at will lease agreements” that last several years to respectable churches, of those parts of their farm used for weddings.

This way, couples who wished to get married under the authority of any of those churches could schedule their wedding on the leased area as a church, not secular event.

For the scheduled hours, that land would not be part of the farm, but leased ownership of that church.

Of course, the angry people would demand membership in the lease agreement, but that could be refused until the lease is up for renegotiation, several years out.


31 posted on 08/29/2014 4:18:36 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Rusty0604

The radical ISIS mindset in the USA with this garbage.


32 posted on 08/29/2014 4:21:02 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Obama lied; our healthcare died.)
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To: Rusty0604

Should have said “Hey, let us show you this pigpen” ....


33 posted on 08/29/2014 4:21:04 PM PDT by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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To: Rusty0604

There is no “right to get married”

Faggot or otherwise.


34 posted on 08/29/2014 4:21:53 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month.)
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To: Rusty0604
host the sham affair and make it a day they will regret forever...

tell them in advance you do not want their business and they will not be happy with your services and advise them to go where they will feel more wanted

then be rude to the attendees, if catering, make sure anything usually cold is warm and vise verse for things warm, spread manure the day before, etc,etc,etc...

there's no law against bad service specially since they were warned in advance

35 posted on 08/29/2014 4:23:01 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Huskrrrr
Pastors, Priests, and Rabbis will be next.

Well many moons ago when one George W Bush was proposing Faith Based Programs and incorporating government funding into it many warned this was a foot in the door for government takeover of churches. People thought well George W Bush won't do this but the long term blind could not see or blatantly refused to see that even Da Bushes were setting us up on purpose for what we see happening in government today.

Most Obama Administration abuses of powers, most radical Judicial subversion of the Constitution of The United States, most of the decline we live under had began under Poppy, Clinton, and W's watch, with Obama pushing the throttle to full speed ahead over the cliffs.

Thank your spineless fraudulent to their oath GOP leaders like current Speaker of The House for help making it all possible. Thank the Dems as well who now own the GOP.

36 posted on 08/29/2014 4:23:45 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: Rusty0604

This sure as hell isn’t America anymore.

Not when things like this happen.

All my life I pledged allegiance to my country, and was willing to put my life on the line for its preservation. When I see situations like this going on, with homo-fascist thugs running both the government and the culture, I’m no longer bound by my former devotions. Not when America continues to embrace such evil and perversion.


37 posted on 08/29/2014 4:27:04 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Political Junkie Too
The Constitution doesn't grant rights. It grants powers to government and limits government to those powers enumerated.

The bill of rights was a bad idea, and many thought so at the time, since the part about "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people" often gets ignored.

/johnny

38 posted on 08/29/2014 4:30:46 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER
Sure there is. Just because it isn't listed in the Constitution doesn't mean it's not a right.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. -- 9th Amendment US Constitution.

/johnny

39 posted on 08/29/2014 4:32:57 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

If I lived closer I would be glad to go there with a blowhorn and make their event a miserable one.

TIME TO FIGHT BACK!

The militant homosexuals are not satisfied to live and let live. They are about FORCING homosexuality on everyone. They will not be satisfied until they can force everyone to publicly celebrate their perversion.


40 posted on 08/29/2014 4:33:32 PM PDT by Dacula
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