Posted on 10/13/2014 8:12:25 AM PDT by lowbridge
A civil rights commissioner has found that a Kentucky T-shirt company that refused to print shirts for a gay pride parade is guilty of discrimination, calling for its employees to attend diversity training — but the company likely won’t be backing down.
Greg Munson of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission announced last Tuesday that Hands on Originals, a T-shirt company based in Lexington, Kentucky, discriminated against the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington when it refused to print the shirts.
As TheBlaze previously reported, the gay rights group filed a complaint against Hands on Originals back in March 2012, alleging that it had been discriminated against due to sexual orientation.
Company owner Blaine Adamson has since argued that Hands on Originals is a Christian business and that the views espoused by the T-shirt — which advertised a gay pride festival — violated his religious beliefs.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal firm, has defended Adamson throughout the two-year legal process, with senior counsel Jim Campbell telling TheBlaze that the commission’s preliminary ruling isn’t definitively clear.
It reads, in part: “The Respondent’s refusal to provide goods and services of public accommodation to the Charging Party constitutes unlawful discrimination against the members of the [Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington] on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual identity in violation of Local Ordinance 201-99.”
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I’d like to order 100 shirts emblazoned with:
Eff Greg Munson and his FASCISM!
Is there not one government entity from any small town in this country that HASN’T been taken over by left wing PC cowards?
They need to get the case through the administrative level as soon as possible (because they are going to lose anyway) so they can appeal the final decision in the Courts. We need to get this issue up the judicial ladder ASAP. There is a clear differentiation between refusing to serve an event out of freedom of speech and religion and refusing to serve any given individual out of discriminatory bias. This is the hill to die on.
Find a gay tee shirt printer. Order tee shirts that say “Mankind shall not lie down with mankind as with womankind.” See what he does. If he refuses, sue him.
...in violation of Local Ordinance 201-99.
since when do these BS diversity panels have ANY binding authority whatsoever?
They should all be disbanded as a waste of tax money.
The petty bureaucrats were the basic building blocks of nazism and communism. Give someone insignificant a little power and they become full of themselves.
Easy to get around a law suit here, just price the job so high these folks will go some where else.
there is no diversity training in the other direction. We are supposed to be liberal, and accept that the gay commuity is liberal and tolerant and all that already. Whereas it is bible thumping gun clinging religious types who don’t accept diversity.
Is there not one government entity from any small town in this country that HASN’T been taken over by left wing PC cowards?
...the old phrase ‘you can’t fight City Hall’ was true in the past, is true now, and will be true forever..
HOMOSEXUAL, because there's nothing GAY about it.
Especially when they do not have to answer to the people.
Total hit job on a Christian company.
There are 30 screen-printing outfits that serve Lexington.
I sure the defense will bring that up.
http://www.yellowpages.com/lexington-ky/t-shirt-printing
I was thinking of the fred phelps church getting a gay t shirt printer to make t shirts with their oft used slogan, “god hates fags”.
commissioner = commissar
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