Posted on 06/07/2012 3:39:42 PM PDT by NYer
Most disconcerting!
Down is up. Wrong is right.
The bakery didn’t have to make a cake with the name Adolph Hitler on it and in fact reported the parents who named their child this to the authorities.
Either you can choose what artistic endeavor you want to participate in or you can’t.
The court brushed aside the claim that photography is a form of “speech” protected under state and federal law, ruling, “The NMHRA does not force Elane Photography to endorse any message or modify its own speech in any way. Rather, the NMHRA requires Elane Photography merely to offer its photography services without discrimination against any member of a protected class.”
Horsesh1t.
If that is their reasoning its past time to change the way we do things. SCREW protected classes..that is not equality before the law.
The correct response if “Eff yourself”.
Right, the state does not recognize such pairings, some judicial activism is going on to extend the protection to a class that does not exist.
Western civilization will go down in flames.
Then everything is discrimination!
Personal freedom in this country is long gone.
Am I guilty of discrimination if I don’t kiss the bride?
The photographers could have had ‘equipment failure’ and left the scene.
What happened to those signs “we have the right to refuse service to anyone”? Besides, the “partner” was DISHONEST enough not to even mention it was a fag he was going to marry in the e-mail.
Lesson to photogs in the future: find out by subtle questioning what the name of the bride is...
If a gay photographer refused to photograph a heterosexual wedding because he only wants to do "gay weddings", would they consider that to be discrimination? I'll bet not, because straight people are not likely a protected class. If that is the case, then the anti-discrimination law itself is discriminatory.
“What happened to those signs “we have the right to refuse service to anyone”?
Dang, beat me to it. ;)
More government overreach. It is not the government’s job to tell us who we can and cannot like or service or sell our wares to.
The business owner takes the business loss/risk when they turn away customers but its THEIR business decision.
If this isn’t just plain tyranny I don’t know what is.
Doesn’t the Constitution forbid involuntary servitude?
“Damn, the battery pack died and we don’t have a spare.”
“Sorry, we’re all booked up.”
How many times do businesses get in trouble because they forget to say those few words?
I think think this could be the tip of the iceberg. Let’s hope all Christian Churches can properly defend themselves when they refuse to perform a gay marriage. What a LOAD of SH*T. There is no such thing as “gay marriage”, but the gays are too lazy to come-up with their own name for their union.
Or they could go ahead and take the best photos for these bullies then take the payment received and donate it to Exodus International, P-FOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays) or some other group that helps homosexuals out of this perversion and let the bullies know that is exactly where their payment for services rendered is going.
They can’t do a darn thing about it and it allows the photographer to remain honest.
Or they could go ahead and take the best photos for these bullies then take the payment received and donate it to Exodus International, P-FOX (Parents and Friends of Ex-Gays) or some other group that helps homosexuals out of this perversion and let the bullies know that is exactly where their payment for services rendered is going.
They (the bullies) can’t do a darn thing about it and it allows the photographer to remain honest.
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