Business owners threatened, face legal action for refusing to rent facility for gay ‘wedding

Life Site ^ | Ben Johnson

[Morgana]

GRIMES, IA, August 12, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A Christian couple is facing a state complaint, business cancellations, and vulgar, harassing, and threatening e-mail messages after refusing to rent out a business facility for a gay “wedding.”

Dick and Betty Odgaard said they could not in good conscience allow a homosexual couple to use their business, the Görtz Haus Gallery, to conduct the ceremony itself. Betty Odgaard Betty Odgaard

“To us, [marriage] is a sacrament,” Betty Odgaard said, that exists only “between a man and woman.”

She told Billy Hallowell of The Blaze their rejection was “totally a faith-based issue,” adding the couple would be happy to serve the homosexuals “in any other way,” besides being the site on which they traded vows.

The couple quickly filed a legal complaint before the Iowa Human Rights Commission, saying that state law forbids any public venue from denying the use of its premises on the basis of sexual orientation.

As the story of their denial broke, frightening messages began filling up the Odgaard's inbox, the couple says.

“F--k you, f--k your God, f--k your religion," said one message from an angry gay rights activist. The same writer enlarged upon his thoughts, adding, “You are mean, rude, selfish, mother f---er racist sons of b---hes from hell.”

The family has suffered financial loss for its traditional stance, as well. Other couples have canceled their ceremonies.

The Grimes, Iowa, location served as a Lutheran church for nearly 65 years and is a popular destination for couples tying the knot.

Same-sex “marriage” has been legal in Iowa since April 3, 2009, when the state Supreme Court unanimously declared its defense of marriage law violated the constitution.

Lawsuits and legal actions accusing Christians of violating “anti-discrimination” statutes have risen in proportion to the number of states and localities that have toyed with redefining marriage.

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Last year, a judge ruled that a New Jersey retreat house affiliated with the United Methodist Church could not refuse its services for a gay “marriage.”

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson pressed charges against elderly Christian florist Barronelle Stutzman after she refused to sell flowers for a gay“marriage” in March.

Christian photographers Elaine and Jonathan Huguenin were convicted of violating the New Mexico Human Rights Act after they declined to photograph a same-sex “commitment” ceremony.

Rasmussen pollsters found earlier this year that 85 percent of Americans believe people should be able to opt out of participating in same-sex “marriage” ceremonies if they so choose.

[Isabel2010]

In cases like this how far can the gays force so called tolerance~~~only as far as the folks will let them! Maybe time to rethink all this “tolerance” cr@p~~~just saying~

[little jeremiah]

Very few homosexuals are opposed to the radical homosexual agenda.

How do I know this?

None of them speak out against it.

[little jeremiah]

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Mr.K's question:

Why do the homos insist on going where they are not wanted?

Simple. Because homo "marriage" and indeed, their entire agenda, is not about tolerance, acceptance or anything else. It is about ruination of our freedoms of religion, speech, association - and more. Such as the right to educate and raise our children. It is about tyranny, chaos and enforcement of a Sodom and Gomorrah style society. It's really simple, and I"ve predicted this for years. And they're not satisfied yet. They want more.

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[USS Johnston]

it seems like the first thing they do once ‘gay marriage’ is legalized is to seek out Christian venues and stores to harass

Homos are angry human beings bent on revenge. Now that "Hate Laws" protect ONLY Homos while enabling THEM a license to bait, inflict pain, and in-tolerance upon their Enemy (God-Centered people), they will Hate with impunity.

Same phenomena is in practice by vengeance-seeking blacks who also exploit the same so-called "Hate Laws" as a purely one-sided sledgehammer against Whitey.

The Fix is in as the now mythical Constitution's clause of "equal protection" now demands that the rest of us perform swan dives into no-man's land: