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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Remember: When everyone has "Rights" no one has Rights.
Satan and his minions are hard at work, aren't they?
Meanwhile, my advice to the Knapps is to move the Hitching Post just outside the city limits.
I think the “nattering nabobs” line was by Bill Safire.
Gay activists are so full of hate, they won’t stop here.
The smart ones drop these types of cases. Why? Because they *know* this will expose the lie that Churches even need to be registered as 501c3’s in the first place, they’re exempt. This “separation of Church and State” goes both ways, the State has no jurisdiction over the Church. The fact that they say the ordinance doesn’t specify profit vs non-profit is irrelevant, it doesn’t get to just trump the Constitution because an “ordinance” doesn’t differentiate. If Churches ever realize the power that would be unleashed by realizing they don’t have to pander to 501c3 status - it would be devastating to the left. Which is why they never push the issue of revoking the 501c3 status for political speech. They just threaten it. They never want to really challenge it because they know they’d lose.
Yet the activists will not be able to see beyond their own hatred. It consumes them. They will ultimately push to prosecute only to lose so badly the backlash will be something unimaginable (to them). The more they prosecute the less support they’ll get. People will see them for what they are.
These are troubling times we live in. All things must come to pass...you can let it disturb you, or, you can appreciate the privilege of living in these times and seeing history unfold - toward the end game. We will be persecuted...for doing nothing wrong and you will be righteous.
“Liberals crave real, live civil war...the hot kind. “
They should be careful what they wish for. They may just get it.
Oh, I’m so relieved! /sarc
The couple could sue in civil court.
As recently as say ten years ago, marriage being a man and a woman was not a religious peculiarity. It was just the definition of a word.
This is why we have to get out and vote for Republicans because the Senate determines the Supreme Court. We all know by now that the Democrats all take the vows to the PC gods and will not budge from the orders given to them from their higher ups, we cannot afford to risk having more liberal Supreme Court judges or Federal judges.
What standing in court do they have? They can still get married in the chapel, they just have to find a right thinking lesbian.
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