Posted on 03/31/2015 6:52:22 AM PDT by C19fan
Greg Ballard, the Republican mayor of Indianapolis, Indiana's largest city, has come out against a controversial religious freedom act signed into law last week by the state’s Republican governor, the Indianapolis Star reports.
In a press conference Monday, Ballard announced that he had issued an executive order that "no vendor, contractor, grant recipient or anyone receiving public funds or benefits of any kind shall discriminate on the basis of...sexual orientation [or] gender identity."
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Houston's lesbian mayor tried that but she's a Liberal Democrat.
RE: the customer wants to use the product/service and is willing to pay. does the producer of the service have the right to say no?
according to CO and WA state, the answer is no if the customer is a homo
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Not exactly an accurate description. If a customer is a homo, the bakers WILL still bake a cake for the person. The CO baker openly stated that.
It is participating in a ceremony that the baker deems sinful [i.e., against his religious beliefs ] that is at issue.
One discriminates against a person because of WHO HE IS, the other discriminates because of WHAT HE DOES.
RFRA is intended to protect those who object to the latter, not the former.
Yeah, I don’t see how this conflicts with RFRA either. Mayor’s just using his executive power to determine how and where city funds are spent.
So, for example, city employees can’t use city funds to buy the Mayor a birthday cake from a baker who refuses to create wedding cakes for same-sex weddings. The city can’t, however, shut the baker down for refusing to do so.
Iow a case of a lot of noise and fury, signifying nothing.
Well it sounds like it is time for the Governor to relieve this Mayor of his position. These leftist coddlers can’t just ignore the law. I swear I’m beginning to think the only alternative is all out war with these types. The only rules they will play by are the rules they want to force us to obey. This nation can not continue on with this kind of blatant disregard of law and oppression of individual liberty for sake of the homoleftistfascists.
“Next, public restroom use by ‘gender’, not sex!”
Next.... The question is, where does it finally end? When is there no more “next”? It’s not going to be enough to just participate and celebrate in their sodomite fixation by being forced to bake cakes for them and photograph their play ‘weddings’. it’s past time to say ENOUGH!!!
Worth repeating:
“The only rules they will play by are the rules they want to force us to obey.”
Excellent! Could be used on a number of threads this morning!
the musician analogy fits perfectly.
the musician is denying the GOP the ability to play their song (product) because of the behaviors (what he does) of conservatives.
just like the private shop owner deciding whether or not to provide their service/product to anyone walking through their door for any reason.
the only exception would be publicly held companies, as the company loses the ability to decide who receives their products once they went public.
which draws into question tom cook’s statements to shareholders. he should be removed as CEO and charged for such discriminatory statements
Not sure how far they would get since the entertainment industry claims some special dispensation of artistic license which they don't want applied to lesser beings such as photographers and florists, but they would be in weak position arguing that a musical performance is somehow superior to a floral arrangement simply because their are more florists than musicians.
Our company sends a royalty check to a licensing service which allows us to play music on our factory production floor, so I think their case would be weak to nonexistent if the campaign played music through such a bought and paid for service.
Arrest his a$$ and send him to prison.
All animals are ‘equal’, some are more equal than others.
In the case of political rallies, the performer does not even need to appear, the song is merely being played in the background before the speakers talk.
They try to claim that the presence of the song somehow implies endorsement (or more directly their refusal to permit the use of the song is a public rebuke).
Next Job for you Governor is to end the HIGH Crime rates in your home town of Indianapolis and Gary as a start.
It’s OK to kill people in Indianapolis but it’s not OK for some to keep CAKE from LGBT?
Even Elvis Presley, arguably the greatest and most original pop star in my lifetime, readily admitted as much. I always respected him because he didn't like the title of King. They once asked him why and he said "There is only one king and that is King Jesus."
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