Posted on 06/07/2018 3:25:08 PM PDT by Blue House Sue
A Tennessee hardware store owner is celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling in favor of a bakery that refused to bake a cake for a gay couple's wedding by placing a "No Gays Allowed" sign in front of his store.
Jeff Amyx, who owns Amyx Hardware & Roofing Supplies in Grainger County, initially posted the sign in 2015 after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage but later removed it following intense backlash.
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How will the proprietor know that the customer is a homosexual unless that person announces it through his declaration or behavior? Say for example, if he comes into the store trying to recruit young boys for buggery operations? I knew homosexuals when I was in the military. I did not know, until years later when they announced their sexual preferences. At least one of them became a four-star general. Keep your mouth shut and don’t do something stupid in the club and no one will bother you. But, that’s not what these wackadoolittles want, they want the attention and want to force people to accommodate their perversions.
This is why we get stuff shoved uh..down our throats...
Maybe suppliers but not so much customers...Do you know where Grainger County is in Tennessee???
It is in East Tennessee and mostly rural...One town of any size and that’s Morristown...
The owner sounds like a special kind of moron.
He might as well close the doors now because he will be eaten up by legal fees for the next 20 years.
The direct defiance of PC expectation is most likely very satisfying in the short term. Probably not a smart decision in the long term. He should prepare for some property damage over the summer. That’s what radical members of this group will do in today’s America.
Does his right to refuse to do business with gays supersede the right of people to not shop at his store?
Do I harm every business on the planet where I do not shop?
“He should prepare for some property damage over the summer.”
They do not have to damage his property.
All there have to do is, threaten to boycott any name brand that he sells in his store.
Should read "No homosexuals allowd"
Do not allow them to keep perverting the language.
Per natural law, not serving people because they are gay is way different than not participating in a gay wedding. Per positive law I think both ought be allowed unless there is a real problem.
He should post a sign saying “This business is not the entrance to Sodomy and Gay-morrah. Aids clinic is 2 blocks south.”
What an idiot.
There isn’t a cause of action that the Sodomites can use in Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 4-21-501. Sodomites aren’t a protected class.
So no, he won’t lose.
Telling it like it is. I have a sign in my shop that says:”Hippies Use Side Door”. Not a single complaint as of yet.
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I haven’t seen a Hippie in years. You have no worries.
No, but when he is boycotted by both customers and suppliers, his business will be impacted.
There has to be a “public accommodation” law that applies first. Tennessee law, which hasn’t yet been stripped of common sense, doesn’t treat perversion and sodomy as something to be celebrated and protected.
That’s a separate issue.
Stupid sign. Stupid owner.
His message is straight up actionable discrimination. May as well put up a “No Jews Allowed” or “No Blacks” sign.
Unlike the baker, his customers are not asking him to participate in something homosexual, or to endorse some lifestyle, there’s no artistic effort, or performance in his work. He’s just selling products to paying customers.
Dumb move.
Except it isn’t. “Public accommodation” laws are STATE laws. Tennessee does not treat perversion and sodomy as a protected class like the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia and other delusional States.
Unless the “public accommodation” law applies to a specific class, the business owner can legally “discriminate” all that he wants.
I am consistently amazed at how people confuse what the law is, and what they think that it is.
“That’s a separate issue.”
It just may separate him from his business.
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