so how does he get around that and make it a personal liability, is this something written into the state laws of incorporation?
Posted on 02/18/2015 7:16:37 PM PST by Maudeen
Says state, same-sex couple can demand home, savings as damages
A judge in Washington on Wednesday authorized the “personal ruin” of a florist whose Christian faith prevented her from promoting a same-sex wedding and who was sued by both the state and the homosexual couple.
Officials with the Alliance Defending Freedom confirmed that Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom granted a summary judgment in the case against Barronelle Stutzman, so the case won’t proceed to trial now. It had been scheduled for March 23.
It was Ekstrom who said last month that Stutzman personally was liable for the claims against her, placing both her business assets and her home and personal savings at risk.
The judge ordered that the state and the homosexual plaintiffs, each of whom filed lawsuits, could collect damages and attorneys’ fees from Stutzman.
“The message of these rulings is unmistakable: The government will bring about your personal and professional ruin if you don’t help celebrate same-sex marriage,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kristen Waggoner.
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It is disgusting. Infuriating because it’s so obviously unjust.
I’d love to see her appeal this and win. I wonder what the chances of that are. Too bad an appeal couldn’t result in an actual jury trial, or could it?
Sure would like to know what damages were incurred. There wasn’t anybody, anywhere, willing to bake these assholes a cake?
Oh, I misread the title. Thought this was about a bakery.
Okay, these assholes could find another florist? Proves that this was agenda driven, not by a lack of service.
Sandra Day says it is wrong to criticize judges.
I say a whole passel of them ought be drug behind pickup trucks
Not that I would advocate for such of course.,
If you're going to ruin my life you're not going to enjoy watching it happen.
Track her story for the coming months
Support her when she’s out of satan court’s reach.
“You may be legally entitled to service, but not good service.”
“Not my line of thinking. Serve them just as you do others to comply with the law. Why lose to them to make a point??”
I agree with both. If offered, take their money (people talk about certain ethnic groups/religions being tight with money...they got nothing on the poofs), but make it known, like the Senator does in the video below, that you can’t stand them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfeHKGvcEUg
Now that the precedent has been set, they will go after every single Christian florist, baker, photographer, whatever, until they take them all out of business. We MUST force our Congress-critters to pass a law against this, to ensure that no one can be ruined just because of their Christian beliefs/conscience. WHatever happened to the “conscience clause”, anyway?
We need to seek this judge’s impeachment. NOW!
That’s nasty! (in a good way)
From the article:
The Court found that “the Constitution and Canons of TEC have no provisions which state that a member diocese cannot voluntarily withdraw its membership.” The ruling found that had there been such a provision, it would have violated the Diocese’s “constitutionally-protected right” to freedom of association. “With the freedom to associate goes its corollary, the freedom to disassociate,” Judge Goodstein said.
This woman was exercising her freedom to disassociate when she chose not to sell flowers for a purpose she did not agree with.
She should take this to the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds, as well as equal protection grounds. Apparently, South Carolina's freedom to disassociate is Washington's discrimination.
-PJ
My point was that beheading is the Muslim style on this issue.
LGBT= Leftist Government Begets Tyranny
+1
Nicely done
I rarely see a fellow English history buff here
Wrong. That what makes this all the more vindictive and shocking--the business is incorporated, but the judge overthrew that protection, making her individually liable.
so how does he get around that and make it a personal liability, is this something written into the state laws of incorporation?
Its whats missed from the debate,
On abortion prolifers are frank about abortion, but on gay marriage we are supposed to be sensitive to their feelings.
here’s the target:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/2014/09/19/3162019_alex-ekstrom-sworn-in-as-benton.html?rh=1
I see that one of the plaintiffs goes by the name of Robert Ingersoll.
Robert Ingersoll is the name of a militant atheist of the Civil War era.
Coincidence?
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