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Posted on 12/17/2021 5:40:52 PM PST by simpson96
A federal judge in New York has dismissed a lawsuit filed by a “Christian” wedding photographer who demanded that the state’s nondiscrimination law be overturned, lest she be forced to photograph same-sex weddings.
The woman, Emilee Carpenter, of Elmira, filed suit earlier this year, claiming that New York’s nondiscrimination law violates her First Amendment rights to free speech and free exercise of religion, and her Fourteenth Amendment right to due process.
Carpenter claims to believe that marriage is a union between one man and one woman, and that weddings are meant to be “inherently religious and solemn events.” As such, by preventing her from turning away same-sex couples, Carpenter claims the nondiscrimination law’s protections for LGBTQ people in places of public accommodation will force her to “participate” in ceremonies that run counter to her religious beliefs, or pay fines of up to $100,000 if she refuses.(snip)
But U.S. District Judge Frank Geraci, Jr., of the Western District of New York, dismissed Carpenter’s lawsuit earlier this week, saying the court was “not persuaded” by Carpenter’s argument that the law’s protections should be partially gutted in order to grant a religious exemption to those, like her, who oppose same-sex marriages.
“As Plaintiff concedes, an ‘expressive’ service like hers is not fungible. Her photographs are a product of her personal ‘artistic discretion,’ ‘technical proficiency’ and ‘moral standards,’ and it is her ‘faith and eye for beauty’ that ‘shape her photography — from first click to final edit.’ While other photographers may operate in the same market, Plaintiff does not allege that they would deliver the same photographs she does,” Geraci wrote.
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Take the photos. Opps! Film messed up.
Do a lousy job and charge them triple - in advance. No more homo troubles.
The title is funny. lol
Out of focus, pictures of feet, guests with their mouths open, more pictures of the venue. They can make you take pictures, they can’t make you take good pictures.
I would think any photographer can find an excuse to not take a gig without specifying why.
What’s his weapon of choice? 🤪
Stop shooting weddings.
is it really that hard to take a bunch of off center, blurry, out of focus pictures with the top of their heads cut off???
after warning them they prolly would like somebody else’s work better...
If you want to shoot a wedding, go to Chicago.
(Would you ask someone to take care of something important for you if you knew he or she had no interest in doing it?)
Or a funeral.
They seem to have similar amounts of violent aftermaths.
Obama judge.
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Shoot a wedding, or shoot up a wedding? 😀😁😂
Have sign at store that all money from gay events goes to destroy the abortion movement..Nothing says you can’t spend your money any way you want...Gays loooove planned parenthood
Then they will sue again...Just let all the gays know that their money goes to destroy Planned Parenthood and abortion movement.....
Time to go on offense, folks. Government is clearly coopted by leftists.
This doesn’t happen in free countries. Can we stop pretending now that the US represents freedom to the rest of the world?
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