Posted on 08/16/2014 6:26:39 PM PDT by massmike
A New York farm has been fined $13,000 by the state Division of Human Rights for declining to host a same-sex ‘wedding’ on their property two years ago, and has been ordered to train their employees to accommodate homosexual ceremonies despite their Christian beliefs.
Administrative Law Judge Migdalia Peres fined Liberty Ridge Farms in Schaghticoke $10,000 and Liberty Ridge Farms was also ordered to provide proof that they have trained their employees not to refuse requests from homosexuals. A poster noting that the business is subject to human rights law must additionally be displayed prominently at the business.
Jason McGuire, the executive director of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms, decried the ruling on Thursday, noting that Liberty Ridge Farms took no issue with serving homosexuals. He outlined that the Giffords only drew the line when the request equated to personal involvement, thus violating the Scripture’s command not to be a partaker in other’s sins.
McGuire noted that when same-sex “marriage” was legalized in New York in 2011, Christians and others were assured that they were protected under a religious freedom amendment, but now he finds that amendment useless.
“When the bill was passed, we were promised that the religious freedom amendment to New York’s same-sex ‘marriage’ legislation would do the job. We were told it would be the strongest in the nation. Our legislators bought the lie and today every New Yorker is living the lie. Town clerks, justices and businesses are impacted by the Empire State’s religious freedom farce,” he stated. “There is no protection in New York law that did not already exist prior to the bill’s passage. But after gay ‘marriage’ was enacted, clerks are out of work and business owners are facing human rights complaints. That’s the reality we are living today.”
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Bullies only act like that until someone punches them in the nose.
Sure, guys, let me check our schedule. Oh, no, what a shame that we’re booked that weekend. Bye!
Never ever refuse a service due to race, creed, or sexual preference.
It's not dead yet. Just resting. It was stunned by the election of someone who is ineligible.
I feel more and more like I’m living in an Ayn Rand novel!
I would refuse to pay. I would sell the farm quickly, for cash. I would move out of state and refuse all communications with any New York tyrants.
In fact, I actually DID move out of that freakin' hellhole.
Ask homosexual owned bakers to bake cakes for anti-homosexual events. Oh, never mind. There must be 1.6% of all bakeries, so practically impossible to find.
I thought Ayn Rand’s writing was ludicrously exaggerated. Even the most evil looters couldn’t be as bad as her characters. It turns out her fiction was understated, and people like Obama use it as a blueprint for a starting point.
Welcome to communists criminal Division of Human Rights of America. The power to fine has to be taken away from all departments of the Federal Government. Only the courts should have the power to judge and if necessary to fine.
Sodomy trumps your religious rights.
National divorce, NOW!!
I miss America.
You weren’t far off. 75% of NYT editorial staff is LGBT.
Don’t do it! Do not comply!
yup.
this is why adhering to even the most basic requirement is crucial.
when you don’t, you’re signaling your willingness to forego the document entirely
What if the owners told the judge “Will not comply. And by the way, go f*** yourself”?
Free association died with the Civil Rights Act in the 60s. Much of our freedom went with it. Proof that a noble goal can advance terrible harm...
I’m confused.
it’s a FARM... why do they have to allow ‘WEDDINGS’ to be held on their property again??
I found that a tad curious, too...
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