Posted on 07/10/2013 2:34:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Express your Christian Belief – Get Fined $30,000
Ming Linsley, left, and Kate Baker smile after winning $30,000 from a Vermont Bed and Breakfast. The owners of the Bed-and-Breakfast made the mistake of expressing their religious beliefs to the couple.
It cost them dearly.
In Vermont – Gay rights trump Religious rights
Yesterday, I spoke with Jim Campbell from the ADF about this recent case of Christian persecution. A Bed and Breakfast expressed their religious beliefs to a same-sex couple and ended up paying $30,000 in fines.
(VIDEO-AT-LINK)
Townhall reported on the settlement last year.
A Vermont bed and breakfast has settled a lawsuit brought by the state’s Human Rights Commission and two women who wanted to have a same-sex wedding reception on the inn’s property.
The Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville agreed to pay $10,000 to the Vermont Human Rights Commission as a civil penalty for violating Vermont’s Fair Housing and Public Accommodations Act as well as $20,000 in a charitable trust to be controlled by the couple, the Burlington Free Press reported Aug. 23.
“The Wildflower Inn has always served — and will continue to serve — everyone in our community. But no one can force us to abandon our deeply held beliefs about marriage,” owner Jim O’Reilly, a Catholic, said in a statement. “Our beliefs haven’t changed, but we do have lives to live, a family to love, a business to grow, and a community to serve.
“Small businesses like ours cannot match the limitless resources of the government and the,” O’Reilly said. “Ongoing litigation like this can cripple any small business and the livelihood of its owners, so we’re relieved to put this ordeal behind us.”
Religious tyranny, what freedom?
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I was thinking about that. What if someone just posed to see what would happen?
Ah, for the good old days, when you’d read about this kind of stuff in Canada and thank God you lived in a country where “it just couldn’t happen.”
And I hope the Inn is planning to appeal. There's no way this is just.
I hope these businesses start becoming a little more savvy when dealing with these shysters. “can we cater your gay wedding? as much as we’d like to our event planner will be out of town that weekend”.
In WA they were trying to pass a bill that businesses can’t be forced to provide any service that would go against their religious beliefs after the gays sued the florist. The gays are yelling about ‘what if we live in a rural area and we can’t buy bread and milk from the only store in town’?. That’s not quite the same thing as catering to a wedding but they will probably win.
Our ancestors would have correctly identified these evil and sadistic women as unnatural forms that have an insatiable appetite for power over others. They knew what to do with such anti-Christian, anti-freedom parasites. I don't agree with their response, but the more I see of today's gay mafia, the better I understand our ancestors' willingness to burn evil at the stake.
So.....if some business owner in vermont tells me he’s opposed to the traditional marriage standard I can sue him?
Probably not - that door only swings one way, doncha know?
By telling us they are lesbians, are they not opening discussions about lifestyles?
They started it.
So even though these businesses have a constitutional right to refuse service, there is a higher power.
The US government.
I just don't get how these Christian business owners continue to fall for this shakedown $hit.
Do they not "get" that they are being set up?
It's great that they have their beliefs, but they HAVE to know that this is becoming an almost daily event.
Mean Christian won't make a cake. Gets sued for 30K.
Christian business closes shop because they don't have a spare 30K lying around.
Just make the f'ing cake. Don't even ask questions.
Sorry for the rant, but why do these businesses let themselves become punching bags and tools?
Nobody says the cake has to be "tasty".
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Pretty soon we'll be out of options. Either starve and/or be fined homeless or take to the streets in mass national strike/protest.
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The Christian business owners aren’t the problem. No one should be forced to cater to mentally ill sex perverts.
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Insanity. Where’s the end of it? What are our options?
I really think mass civil disobedience/protests/national strike is our only option at this point, or very soon.
I fully support these businesses. But sometimes you have to pick your battles.
Asking 2 women "Are you lesbians?", "Well, then I guess we won't allow YOU to stay here" is pretty stupid IMHO.
Now having said that, If these 2 lesbians came in and tooted horns, saying "We're lesbians!"
Now that's a different story.
LOL, that would be a good one-cater the sodomite wedding, but have all your catering staff show up in Hazmat outfits!
I suppose Muslm butchers get away with catering to Muslims simply because they’re Muslims and not the PC target that Christians are. Christians won’t cut their heads off. That’s one of the things which chapps my azz-the cowardly sodomite bunch never try to force a Muslim business to cater to their perversion.
Or I would make it a specialty of my business that all my cakes, etc have a Bible verse on them, of my choosing. At least they couldn’t whine about “discrimination” then, since everybody gets the same thing. It would be telling to see if Christians would support this business, just as a matter of principle (knowing that the sodomites like to use Christian businesses as “test cases”, to force them to either buckle or get sued out of business).
And make the cake with a woman and man on top.
What would the gays do?
Can't complain that you didn't make them a delicious cake.
They may not have "liked it", but f%$k you, pay me!
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