Posted on 08/09/2013 1:55:52 PM PDT by Nachum
Another business is facing retribution for declining service to a same-sex couple. Betty and Dick Odgaard, owners of Görtz Haus Gallery in Grimes, Iowa, are catching the ire of gay rights advocates after they declined offering their venue to Lee Stafford and his fiance Jared.
Now the owners, who are Christians, are receiving vicious and threatening emails and phone calls — and they fear that their business could shut down because of the fierce reaction.
It was less than one week ago that the Lee and Jared entered Görtz Haus looking for additional information about holding their wedding there. After Dick realized that it would be a gay ceremony, he told the couple that they would not be able to hold their nuptials at the establishment — and that’s when the controversy erupted.
“It started with emails and we noticed the emails were from a person with a name that looked like a man’s name. We’re a little suspicious about it and … two fellows walked in and that’s where it all began,” Dick told TheBlaze on Friday. “It was obvious what the situation was. I had to confirm it. I asked if this was a gay marriage celebration and I said we can’t take your money for this.”
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This is what the left means by "tolerance" - destruction to those who disagree with them.
The "gay rights" movement is not about expanding rights, but is about taking rights away from others.
All part of the homofacists agenda to further destroy the moral fabric of American society.
The tide soon needs to start turning if America is to be saved.
No one can hate like the Gaystapo.
They should carefully record every single vicious phone call and other evidence received and then file criminal charges of harassment. NO ONE should ever have to put up with this barbarism.
It’s more like we see how many are going to hell and how they want to pull others with them. With PC and same sex marriage - it is just pushing it’s hardest for who ever isn’t grounded - to fall so they submit to law/man and not God. They need prayers to be strong.
Hopefully, their church is there for them if they need to close. That’s the purpose of the church to be there for ‘their brothers/sisters’ as they are a family under God.
No apology to S&D. They weren’t under the age of grace then. When this age of grace is over, they will be destroyed, also. God is the same, now, yesterday and tomorrow.
I anticipate a lawsuit, and I expect the gays will win, and end up owning the venue.
I eagerly await the Clown Occupier to make a statement condemning this hate speech. Even a hate crime.
Or, he can see it from his front porch! :-)
Where’s the tolerance for Normal people? Aids isn’t working fast enough.
you must not have lived near Iowa City...
Do the Westboro Pretend Baptists ever protest fag “weddings” - or would the mutual evil cancel each other out? LOL
We have all seen little kids throwing tantrums, this is what happens when kids are allowed to throw tantrums all of their lives until they become adults but still act like children. Bratty kids usually have enablers who allow them to run rough shod over others, in the case of the gays their enablers are the Democrat Party and liberal powers in the universities and media. These demented people need to be slapped down hard.
Our little gay friends are becoming more than obnoxious—they are crazed tyrants and many people, even those who are not very aware are begining to see how all those cutesy gays on tv have morphed into a real threat. This is the time to tell our family and friends that the Democrat Party are the prime enablers of the gay movement. It is the Democrat Party that put gay “rights” on their party platform since the 1970’s. The Democrats have been proudly and loudly shouting out how they support the right of everyone to “love” whom they pleased. Clinton and Obama made gays in the military one of their prime efforts.
Democrats have accepted gay activists and the money of rich gays to win elections. Democrats have given taxpayers money to the hundreds of gay organization that are used to harass conservatives. The gays have many workers thinking up their strategies and this all takes money—our taxpayer money. This is the gay machine.
The Democratic Party has sold its soul for votes. They don’t care who they sell their souls to as long as they can use them to get more power. Now is the time to open up the eyes of our families and friends who may have dismissed conservatives as the extremists. Let people know that by supporting Democrats they have been supporting a party that has been extremist for over thirty years.
strangely they never seem to protest against actual gay events....
almost as if they were simply trying to make Christians look bad...
hhhmmmmm
Does anyone catch the fact that the faggots could care less that some of the service providers have cut off providing their business to the wedding venue owners because of their religious beliefs, every bit as “discriminatory” as what the faggots claim is being done to them?
They want the absolute right to dictate what is considered acceptable and normal in society. They do not respect any boundries and the more freedom they get the more diseased and bizarre their behavior will become. Look at their public behavior at their gay pride celebrations.
>> Iowa law does prohibit service refusals based on sexual orientation
In other words, law that forces the citizens to service and support homosexual behavior.
You better believe it was a set up and how did the gays find out about it if they were not told about it. They pull these stunts all the time. After gay marriage was passed in Massachusetts two lesbians went to a Catholic adoption agency to adopt a child. The Catholic agency said that they couldn’t adopt and the same lesbians went right to a judge who ruled that the Catholic Church had to allow the lesbians to adopt. This caused the Catholic Church to close their adoption agency. With the Catholic Churches adoption agency closed it gave the liberal controlled secular adoption agencies more opportunities to give more children out for adoption to gays.
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