Posted on 04/05/2015 6:21:23 PM PDT by silverleaf
(EXCERPT) A florist in eastern Washington state fined $1,000 for refusing to sell a same-sex couple wedding flowers and also facing a consumer-protection lawsuit has netted more than $87,000 in a crowdfunding campaign.
The Seattle Times reports that nearly half of the money on the gofundme.com page set up in February for 70-year-old Barronelle Stutzman came in the last several days.
Supporters compare Stutzman's benefit page to an Indiana pizza shop that raised more than $800,000 after closing when the owner said the shop wouldn't cater a gay wedding.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3026692/85K-raised-Washington-florist-refused-gay-couple.html#ixzz3WUHTYV6r
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The Washington State Attorney General offered this feisty lady a "deal" if she would agree to not "discriminate". She refused, in the name of her religious convictions. So the State is pressing the suit to bankrupt her, professionally and personally. The GOFUNDME link to help with her legal and personal costs is posted. Another chance to help those who take a stand, for those who missed the chance to donate to Memory's Pizza!
http://www.gofundme.com/mz6zm4
She should sue in Federal court under title 42 section 1983 against the state for violating her first amendment right to peacefully assemble.
What’s the home address and phone number of the Washington State Attorney General?
Also, what’s the home address and phone numbers of the two trouble-making pervs?
Arlene’a Flowers & Gifts
1177 Lee Blvd.
Richland, WA 99352
Some friend!
If she has a federal case, maybe someone should offer to take it pro bono. I don’t think most 70 year old florists have the money to be taking on a court system that they have assumed, for all of their lives, was there to protect their liberty and freedom
personally, since these men had been longtime customers of her shop, and got wedding flowers from some other business to whom she referred them, I fail to see the damage they suffered. Just another tantrum and personal vendetta being played out in the “justice system”
Guess this a-hole AG doesn’t understand the 1st Amendment to the Constitution. It takes precedence over any state law — but then lib states are different.
Over $91,000 as of this post. Her case is not as well known as the hysterical case of Memories Pizza.
But she is in REAL DANGER of losing her business because of GOVERNMENT intervention.
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Although the couple received flowers...
So she sold them enough flowers for them to arrange at their wedding but that wasn’t enough as she had to appear at their wedding and arrange the flowers herself!
"When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."
From the information provided it appears they had bought flowers from her in the past (no discrimination there) but when they wanted wedding flowers, she referred them to another vendor.
The florist does become part of the wedding planning. It is very much like being forced to participate, not just about selling something to someone. Ditto with cakes and other wedding services
Pretty much everyone in Washington government is an a-hole.
I just don’t understand it. These left wingers pitch a bitch if God is mentioned in school or on any piece of government property yet they thing it’s perfectly okay for the government to tell an individual how they can and cannot worship.
Supposedly, the two men were offered free flowers from about 20 other florists. I believe they took one of the florists up on their offer.
The only damage they suffered was to their ego because they could not force her to violate her faith.
Perhaps she could’ve charged $1 trillion dollars to cater that gay wedding...
The bottom line for this law is two fold.
1) Christians cannot be friends with homosexuals any more, even if the Christians are kind, outgoing and charitable people. Because if they have any commerce at all with homosexuals they set themselves up for merciless abuse, if not directly from the homosexuals, then from the state.
2) Christian businesses involving any aspect of marriage, need to make contracts with the churches in the area that do not marry homosexuals, to *only* provide wedding services to marriages held in those churches. This insulates the business as it is no longer providing a “public service”. At the same time, it also rejects those people who want a secular marriage, or one performed at liberal churches that embrace homosexual marriage.
It is not a “public service”, but a “contractual service”, and thus immune from this law.
What is not to get? They are hypocritical statist power-hungry scum.
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