Posted on 02/27/2016 6:43:40 AM PST by massmike
A small town bakery owned by a Christian family is under siege after they declined to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple.
Edie and David Delorme own the Kern's Bake Shop in Longview, Texas.
The Delormes are also devout Christians and they run their bakery according to the tenets of their religious beliefs.
That became a problem on Feb. 17 when Ben Valencia and Luis Marmolejo requested the bakers make a cake for their upcoming wedding.
She offered to provide the gay couple with a list of bakeries that would meet their needs, but she said the men simply walked out of the store.
A few days later she received a telephone call from the local newspaper. The gay couple had gone public and had accused the Delorme family of discrimination.
Marmolejo told the newspaper he couldn't understand why the couple just didn't violate their religious beliefs.
"I don't see how making a cake for somebody is going to compromise your beliefs," he said.
Soon after the story was published, the Delormes were overwhelmed with a number of threats against the business and their family. Angry activists posted derogatory reviews on Yelp and other social networking platforms.
"See you in Hell, lady," read one angry message. "Racist criminals."
"This business is run by a homophobic piece of (expletive)," another message read.
So far, no formal charges or complaints have been filed against the Christian couple but should that happen, First Liberty said they are prepared to defend the bakery.
"We just want equal rights," David told me. "We want to be treated equally."
Mr. Delmore raises a pretty good point. Shouldn't Christian Americans have the same rights and privileges as LGBT Americans?
(Excerpt) Read more at charismanews.com ...
Congratulations to you and your lovely young lady good sir!
America is in a very dark place and most will probably never realize it.
[[”See you in Hell, lady,” read one angry message. “Racist criminals.”]]
The intelligence of the angry left-
When did immoral sexual preferences become a classification of ‘race’?
Only God can judge the actions of homosexuals ie sodomy and gays will be judged by God. Just like Sodom and Gamora was judged.
This is where Christians have made a grave mistake. God absolutely calls us to judge! Our judgment is to be a righteous judgment though! A Christian has the law of nature and the Federal Government on his side right now. Just go to the Centers for Disease Control and it will tell you everything you need to know about sodomy. The CDC labels it as "Men having Sex with Men" - because they cannot use any "negative" terminology associated with the Bible or Torah.
This is the time for Christians to not back down and say "gay is ok." Sodomy is deadly and full of disease. This is a truth that cannot be denied. Don't buy in to the lie that Christians are not to judge. That is a lie straight out of the pits of hell! Pro-sodomy Christians have poisoned the doctrine of Christ. The Christ of the Bible taught from the Law! He absolutely taught that sodomy was an abomination before the eyes of God. Christ said I came not to destroy the law but to fulfill the law! That is a Hebraism of the time. To destroy the law meant you were misinterpreting it. To fulfill the law meant you were interpreting it correctly. This doesn't mean you have to get in peoples faces and tell them they are going straight to hell however it does mean that when you are in the company of those who are spreading the false lies that gay is ok you need to speak up with the truth.
Nope
I do, and I take seriously the quality of the work I do.
Completely understandable.
They should not have to compromise the quality of their workmanship any more than they should have to make any other compromises for the Gay Gestapo.
Agree 100%.However,there's a huge fly in the ointment today.As a result we have to play with *their* rules in mind.If we don't they will win EVERY SINGLE TIME.For an example of what I'm talking about spend a few minutes watching a youtube clip from one of my very favorite films,Breaker Morant...the clip of the closing argument by the lawyer representing the defendants in a British court-martial.That lawyer makes my point perfectly.Link below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjP9zmYwEB8
Nope. Having done extensive political polling, I found myself unable to produce a low-quality product, even when I despised my candidate. I adjusted by charging triple to liberals, and I was a little surprised when they paid without complaint. But I did my very best work even for them.
The only legally safe answer is to decline without specifying why, or if you face litigation accept and then back out due to a conflict or personal emergency. Just make sure the contract specifies that there is no penalty for nonperformance. We do not owe these predators anything in terms of honest dealings, so I see no problem with "dropping" their cake on the day of the fake "wedding" and refunding their money.
When I meant judge I mean that that includes administering punishment, ie, Sodom and Gomorrah. Only God can punish sinners.
And I believe that your definition of judge only includes our not accepting or refusing to follow something or even defying something that is a sin of which I completely agree.
Texas has no such Fascist state law that demand groveling before queers, and I seriously doubt that Longview has one. Seeing that this is a very conservative city, and that most of its business is local, I doubt that the handwringing leftist sniveling will have much of an affect on them, unless they let it. My guess is that these cyber slanders are out of San Fransicko or the People’s Republic of New York, people who cannot have any affect on these businesses anyway.
A lot? That's not my perception (but I have been known to be wrong from time to time).
Yes we do. In NYC all interns and residents are required to perform abortions as a part of their training.
Break their spirits - a generation will have to pass away before we can reclaim our previous status as a good nation.
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