Posted on 10/30/2014 2:59:41 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Sorry I missed this earlier in the week, given all of the rush hour traffic clogging the lanes between ISIS City and Ebolatown. We previously covered the now familiar tale of the Knapps at the Hitching Post in Idaho. For the short version of the recap, Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, were informed that they were going to have to perform same sex weddings at their chapel in order to remain in compliance with a city non-discrimination ordinance. The ensuing uproar which traveled from coast to coast like a shotgun blast apparently attracted the attention of the city fathers who have since thought better of the matter.
The city of Coeur dAlene, Idaho, said a for-profit wedding chapel owned by two ministers doesnt have to perform same-sex marriages
Initially, the city said its anti-discrimination law did apply to the Hitching Post, since it is a commercial business. Earlier this week, Coeur dAlene city attorney Mike Gridley sent a letter to the Knapps attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom saying the Hitching Post would have to become a not-for-profit to be exempt.
But Gridley said after further review, he determined the ordinance doesnt specify non-profit or for-profit.
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A win for Religious Freedom.
Yep. And it’s already one of the worst courts in history.
Was it MLK who said, "Everything they did in Nazi Germany was legal."
Liberals crave real, live civil war...the hot kind.
I can be, as a family friend calls the type of person, a "Nattering Nabob of Negativity"... so let me just agree that this is a win... but it is a win on a technicality. Brand an asterisk on this because next time the homofascists will assuredly be sure to have law rewritten as to inflict the maximum damage on "breeders" that happen to adhere to a belief system that does not support faggotry.
Its too bad that were hearing about technicalities with this issue when the media should be emphasizing the major constitutional problem of local / state governments wrongly unreasonably abridging people's constitutionally enumerated rights, the right of religious expression in this example. Section 1 of the 14th Amendment prohibits the states from doing such things.
” . . . the Hitching Post would have to become a not-for-profit to be exempt”
And I am sure that not-for-profit application will sail right through.
Right past the flying pigs.
Hallelujah! Yes we must remain vigilant. Christians must remember we are soldiers of the cross! Stand up for Jesus! Soft squishes and their feel-good religion have only emboldened these control-freak socialists.
Word is the CDA city government caught a little heat. I had nothing to do with it. Almost.
“I can be, as a family friend calls the type of person, a “Nattering Nabob of Negativity”.”
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That’s a Spiro Agnew phrase.
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Appoint jurists to the SCOTUS that demonstrate a thorough understanding of enumerated powers. Problem solved.
for now.
They will try again.
Never knew that... never thought to find the origin of the phrase... Good to know. Thanks!
Maybe not even then.
The laws are not being applied evenly. The Hitching Post’s ordained ministers are not required to perform gay marriages because of religious freedom laws. So the ordained ministers are given religious freedom but the general public is not? You have to be an ordained minister for the first Amendment to apply? I’ve never heard of such a thing.
What about the businesses that have been forced to serve homosexuals against their own personal religious beliefs? Don’t they have religious freedom too? Don’t they get they get the benefit of those laws? Why doesn’t the first Amendment apply to them as well?
All people should be allowed religious freedom to conduct their business whether they do it for a profit or not, whether their business is a specifically ordained ministry or not.
Don’t hold your breath for any of the media to stand up for Religious Freedom. Not even Fox News. They never mention sodomite “marriage”. They have caved into the sodomite nazis like the rest of the media.
Of course I agree with you 100%.
Ted Cruz has announced he will be proposing a Constitutional Amendment concerning this.
I believe either Bill Safire or Pat Buchanan actually wrote the funny Agnew lines.
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