Posted on 03/06/2018 4:34:05 AM PST by huldah1776
A Christian bridal shop in Pennsylvania that has faced death threats will shut its doors permanently due to the strong likelihood that a local town council will pass a law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
W.W. Bridal in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, which made headlines in 2014 and again in 2017 because of the Christian owners' refusal to sell wedding dresses to same-sex couples, has announced that it will close down officially on March 30.
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Co-owner Lisa Boucher, who owns the store along with her mother and two sisters, told The Christian Post on Monday that there are multiple reasons for the family's decision to close the shop.
Chief among them is the high probability that the Bloomsburg Town Council will pass an ordinance banning stores and other places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation no matter what their religious beliefs might be.
Boucher said that the potential ordinance is similar to an initiative that failed to clear the council in 2014.
"So what they (the LGBT community) did was got enough people to run for town council and they had a lot of the kids from [Bloomsburg University] vote those members in so a law could be passed," Boucher explained to CP. "We actually have a document from the Democratic Committee here pretty much saying that there is going to be a fight with W.W. Bridal."
Boucher assured that there will be no religious exemption provided in the ordinance.
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Clay Rooks They might want to hold off closing. I have a hunch that the Supreme Court decision on the cake maker and the florist might finally put an end to this kind of harassment of Christian businesses.
Yay! Another Christian business destroyed. Next up. Feeding them to the lions. (Trust me, if they thought they could get away with it, they would.)
Truly, the left is full of fascists - if you don't support their message, actually dare to have an opinion or belief that diverges from theirs (gasp, real diversity!)... Then they come at you with anything and everything, and feel justified and self-righteous in doing so. No compassion, no acceptance. The other poster is right (pun intended) - they would feed Christians to proverbial (or literal) lions if they thought they could get away with it. Hmm, didn't ISIS try that?
Might as well have the Star of David on our shirts, or some other identifier.
Back in the day, the homo rights mantra was “we just want to be free to live our lives”
Back in the day, the homo rights mantra was “we just want to be free to live our lives”
No need for the Star of David since in most cases ‘white’ skin is the identifier.
good queer = dead queer
Nothing prevents gays from opening their own bridal shops.
No - the point of the Left is to eradicate religion, traditional marriage and traditional values.
This is why they back the LBQT movement - not because they care about non-mainstream sexual lifestyles but because they know they offend us.
That is exactly the reasoning behind Obergefell. It has nothing to do with freedom to marry. Just the opposite.
We elected Trump, but the left is winning. We wanted to reverse the headlong rush to hell, but we seem to be losing the war.
Homosexuality used to be “the love that dare not speak its name.”
Now it’s the love that won’t shut the **** up.
L
envious sour grapes
When I looked up the percentage of the population that was “100% homosexual” v percentage of the population that was “bisexual” and the percentage that was “heterosexual” the percentages were !0%, 80% and 10%. I don’t know if those %ages have changed but I bet they haven’nt changed markedly.
Heterosexuals are too big a minority to change much because we just can’t “get it together” adequately. No common language and no common major philosophy.
Sad; but maybe they will reopen after some recent supreme court cases involving religious freedom are settled. One I think involves a baker for not selling wedding cakes.
I'll bet their drivers licenses list their home addresses as does their insurance (on Mommy and Daddy's).
The schools do not pay property taxes on college owned buildings so the students actually have no standing to vote in the district.
the voting rules did in fact jump out at me, too. Your post should become a national rallying cry. Do they vote twice? One at school town, one in hometown?
Do not do business with any homosexually-owned business. Goose/gander.
I love people that demonstrate the courage of their convictions. Way to go.
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