Posted on 02/27/2014 9:54:40 AM PST by jimjohn
Fear not, Christian wedding service providers. As many of you are concerned that your faith may soon be tested at your front door when you are presented with an offer you dare not refuse. The legal fees and public pressure soon to follow may put you out of business. As a person experienced in this field (wedding photography), there is a strategy to deal with this.
It is said the first step to solving a problem is understand that a problem actually exists. It would seem the problem is that “some of you can’t see the writing on the wall and understand the same-sex marriage is becoming a reality and you need to adjust your old ways of thinking to the new age.”
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This is a campaign being waged against the Christian community on all levels, where wedding service providers are considered ‘soft targets’. C’mon, did you really think this is about conformity? If there is any industry where it’s impossible NOT to find a vendor to serve same-sex couples, it’s the wedding industry. Your battle on legal grounds would be sound, if this was truly the Constitutional Republic you grew up with. It is not, we are at war, and sacrifices must be made. You need to understand this in order to win the battle.
Solution: Make it personal. Disengage your business from the public debate.
Step 1: Announce that your STORE FRONT is no longer in the wedding service business, and that any wedding service REQUIRES a personal wedding invite.
Step 2: Upon invite and RSVP, your wedding services are now a wedding gift, with a donation graciously accepted afterwards.
Step 3: Stay out of the media.
This means that weddings services are only done by you and your associates only when both you and your customer agree that you may and will be expected to attend their event. You of course, don’t need to make it to all the events, but I’m sure your customers will understand.
Now, I know there are some of you out there thinking of some of the reckless things one can do if they are forced to provide a service against their beliefs. Without going into details, these actions can lead to even bigger problems, and is all the more reason a wedding vendor should not be offering services to those that are hostile to said vendors simply because of their beliefs.
Think about it. You are opening yourself to negative publicity just by agreeing to provide a product of service to a hostile customer.
It will very difficult to sue you if you decline the invitation. And when they start forcing us to attend weddings, there will be no need to remind you that we are at war.
The sacrifice will be the short interruption in business you may have in the beginning. However, if you have strong ties in your own business community, it won’t last long. It may not hurt after your announcement to place a cross of a bible verse in your window so folks on our side know where you’re coming from. Also helpful is those who find such businesses patronize these establishments over others.
This is only a small step, but it will work (in fact, it is working in some areas). Right-thinking Americans must begin to think out of the box, understanding that when under-siege, ordinary tactics designed for lawful resources will be taken away, and more asymmetric means of defense are necessary. We must understand that We The People can no longer expect an Redress of Grievances from a government that has abandoned its people. As the saying goes, “we must hang together, or we will hang separately”.
Wedding services are just a small battle in the larger war. But this is a battle that can be won, and yes – must be fought. By servicing only private events, the enemies only course will be to wade into unfriendly territory.
Here’s a question: Does a gay-owned bakery have the right to refuse business from the Westboro Church?
Sounds nice in theory. But in reality, there will be heterosexual couples who will give you nothing more than a thank you card for your photography gift. Or a donation so small, it won’t even cover your expenses. This is NOT a way to run a business.
I’m waiting for one of these twerps to pop into a Moslem-owned business and demand service.
They haven’t got the guts.
They are only selecting what they perceive to be soft targets.
I have a friend in the wedding cake business, and he does phone interviews ahead of time. If he determines that he’s dealing with sodomites trolling for trouble, he just says that he’s booked on the date they request.
Does a black restaurant have the right to refuse service to a table of four hooded KKK?
I’ve asked this question on gay blogs. I’ve been told it is rude to force Muslims to do anything.
In addition to NON-SHARIA females, the muzzies have the homos on their radar. The homos demand for DIVERSITY and TOLERANCE has done much to soften this country for the muzzie invasion. If the muzzies DO get a foothold here, the homos will also lose their heads — LITERALLY!
WOMAN’S LIB AND ISLAM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0cS4p9cFlo&feature=c4-overview&list=UUFDlhK80EdO28R-iGTXiGaw
I like how you think.
I was thinking that one could use the “consumer club” model. That would require a one time $1 charge for membership, customers submit an application, provisional approval of membership, then final approval / rejection based upon the owners preferences.
perhaps Christians can make a committement to only use Christian businesses and not support the gay nonsense...if Christians did this, the bakeries could legitimately say they are "booked up"....
but we white Christians are a weak lot.....
I think the Mormon "religion" is a cult but they stick together for the greater good don't they?....they have their own boy scout troups, and support their businesses and then they tithe regularly, making their church a very rich one that has some pull in society...
when Italians and Irish and Jews came here long ago, they supported each other in their group.....the Asians do the same thing now.....
until we pull our collective heads out of our arses, everything that we cherish and love and abide by will be flushed down the toliet if it hasn 't already been done....
Can any business refuse to let in people legally carrying firearms?
Can a top restaurant refuse anyone to enter if they are not in “proper attire”?
he better have a book with some made up names in it to prove he has other bookings.....pass it on....he only needs to place a first name or two....
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
- Caskie Stinnet
Yes, this will never happen to Muslim-owned businesses, should they refuse to do a Jewish wedding (would they ever ask?), or make a non-halal something or other, or have the women servers ‘bagged’ if they serve at their event.
It is aimed at Christians.
> I’ve asked this question on gay blogs. I’ve been told it is
> rude to force Muslims to do anything.
And they have no cognitive dissonance saying that?
What flaming, cowardly hypocrites.
How about that? Proper attire - two wedding dresses? Two tuxedos??
Question: Can a Black bakery refuse to make a Ku Klux Klan cake with a Confederate flag on it for a Klavern meeting? Must they make the cake under this law?
> But if a heterosexual couple comes in, not married yet, but
> is into sadism, sodomy, wife swapping, sex not within a
> marriage or a half dozen other deviant sex behaviors...do
> you refuse service to them?
Oh, please.
There’s no way to tell if they don’t tell you, so you are not participating in their sin, because you are completely unaware of it.
When a queer “couple” comes into the store and asks for services for their “wedding”, then your conscience is aware of the sin they are promoting, and you would be sinning to participate with them in it.
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