Posted on 11/02/2019 5:07:04 PM PDT by karpov
A Kentucky printer has won a fight over whether it can be forced to print t-shirts for a local LGBT group. It won on a technicality that doesn't address the underlying conflict, so more lawsuits over the issue may be on their way. But one judge on the court made it clear that such suits are not likely to succeed.
The case goes back to 2012, when a Lexington-based print shop named Hands On Originals declined to print t-shirts for the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO), for an upcoming pride festival. The owners of Hands On say they will not print messages for customers that go against their religious beliefs, and their website highlights their Christianity as part of their marketing.
The group got its t-shirts elsewhere, but it also filed a complaint with the Lexington-Urban County Human Rights Commission arguing that Hands On discriminated against it because of its members sexual orientation. Hands On responded that it wasn't discriminating against gay customers but was simply refusing to print messages it found objectionable.
The Lexington-Urban County Human Rights Commission initially ruled against Hands On. But the shop fought back, and beginning in 2015 the court rulings started going in their direction. Precedents (all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court) have made it clear that under the First Amendment, businesses cannot be compelled to print messages they find objectionable. This is not the same as discriminating against a costumer who falls under a protected class: Hands On would have turned away heterosexual customers who wanted them to print gay pride shirts too. It wasn't the customer's identity that mattered—it was the message.
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I'm fed up with homosexuals who demand that everyone not just tolerate but affirm their perversion.
Well, yeah. Imagine trying to get a saracen-owned shirt business to make a shirt that says “muhammad was a pedophile.”
You’re not the only one; 1 Timothy 1:9...
They targeted this shop. Remember the Christian bakery? There were more than 30 cake shops within the vicinity of the 2 faggots who filed the lawsuit and the specific bakery was more than 50 miles...
It hasn’t bothered me much or at all for awhile when I’ve read about muslims throwing queers off roofs. Years ago when the closets were full it probably would have bothered me.
Who cares? It’s a business. All businesses exist to makes money. Sell the widgets.
“Who cares? It’s a business. All businesses exist to makes money. Sell the widgets.”
if you were a beautician would you wax a tranny’s balls while you chanted “It’s just a widget.”?
“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction”
That’s in the Constitution.
They seem to like to target Christians. They probably saw the web site, saw that it was Christian based and tried to force them to make the shirts.
They want what nature won’t allow.
To be fully accepted and to make as many converts as possible.
But it’s an ABNORMAL way of life and naturally and religiously is an aberration.
We LEFT them alone to live their lives with their “partners”. We just didn’t want to hear about it.
The push back when enough is enough will be fierce.
I hope it doesn’t come to that.
I think you are reading his meaning wrong...
(Capitalism)
go to a silk screening business that is ran by a LGBT militant person and order the production of a shirt that says “God loves the sinner but hates there perversion”. they will refuse to print the shirt you then sue them for religious discrimination. of course it would be wrong to sue the business as far as I am concerned. just as its wrong for the LGBT group to sue over not printing there message.
HAHAHA. Well I’m not a beautician so that’s not even a hypothetical.
Take it down the street to Mohammad’s T-shirt shop. They’ll print it.
So the Maoists lose a round and they’re gonna just walk away? Yah,sure!
Wildcard_redneck: “if you were a beautician would you wax a tranny’s balls while you chanted “It’s just a widget.”?”
Airplaneguy: “HAHAHA. Well I’m not a beautician so that’s not even a hypothetical.”
Wildcard_redneck: “A mangled quote from Martin Niemoller:
First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the beauticians
and I didn't speak up
because I a wasn't a beautician.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.
Now I wax tranny balls so that my tranny camp guards don't kill me.
It bothers me because it means the muzzies have gotten another foothold in Western society. That’s bad news not only for gays but for the rest of us too.
Would rather deal with limp-wristed soyboys than suicide bombers shouting about how great Allah is.
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