Posted on 05/13/2015 12:52:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ive been a florist in Richmond, Wash., for more than 30 years. In that time, Ive developed close relationships with many of my clients.
One of my favorites was Rob Ingersoll. Ingersoll came in often and wed talk. Like me, he had an artistic eye. Id try to create really special arrangements for him. I knew he was gay, but it didnt matter I enjoyed his company and his creativity.
Then he asked me to create the floral arrangements for his wedding. I love Rob, and Id always been happy to design for his special days. But theres something different about a wedding.
Every person in the creative professions regularly has to make decisions about where they lend their artistic talents and which events they will participate in. For me, its never about the person who walks into the shop, but about the message Im communicating when someone asks me to say it with flowers.
I was raised Christian. In my religious tradition, marriage is a sacred religious ceremony between a man, a woman and Christ.
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Apparently not. After the "friend" asked for the flower display and she explained how she couldn't do the display for faith reasons, Baronnelle referred him to several competitors whom she felt could do the job well. The "friend" thanked her, they hugged and said goodbye and that seemed to be the end of it... Until the "friend" decided he wanted to go militant and try to destroy Baronelle's livelihood and lawyered up for a lawsuit. The little faggedy POS stabbed a Christian, 70-year-old grandmother in the back. I hope hell has a special place fo him.
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Sounds like she was over-inflating that whole friendship part. Friends don’t sue other friends.
I searched by title.
I am so sorry for your loss. A child’s mental illness and addiction are devastating hardships to endure. May you find peace and healing.
More than likely she was never his friend and he was never her's.
That’s a core part of Humanist assumptions - that the human is capable of defining reality (right and wrong, good and evil) for himself at any time and even in contradiction to what he’d defined it as microseconds before.
This is what was meant by the founder of their worldview when he said
“you will be as gods, knowing good and evil”.
The last thing gays should desire is the discovery of a “gay gene”. Liberals would paint themselves into a corner on abortion, as there would undoubtedly be abortions where the “gay gene” is present. I’m not saying it’s right, but that’s how I see it.
So gay bakers should be required to make wedding cakes for breeders?
It’s getting confusing.
“I say chose, because it is a choice. The scientific literature based on twins separated supports this.”
More people need to be made aware of this fact. Even the not separated twins studies clearly shows it is a choice probably influenced by environment. The results are obvious to any reasonably intelligent reader.
I see no reason to doubt that she saw him as a friend. She seems like a very sweet lady and she probably didn’t expect their to be a problem since she was very nice about referring him to someone else for flowers for this specific occasion.
With all due respect, why would he, or anyone, freely choose a lifestyle that brings so much hellacious misery to them?
So why do identical twins have different personalities, if their genetics are, literally, identical?
Here’s a search by title using the entire title:
www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?s=I%92m+a+Florist%2C+But+I+Refused+to+Do+Flowers+for+my+Gay+Friend%92s+Wedding&ok=Search&q=quick&m=all&o=time
Her “friend” is suing her. Has he ever really been a friend?
I’m a photographer and I refused to do a photo shoot for a couple wishing to do porn. It was against my Christian values. I dare anyone from the politically correct totalitarian camp to arrest me or do me financial harm.
Hey! Money is money!
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