My church has vending machines!!
It either very old or behind the times.....................
Posted on 10/20/2014 8:03:46 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
…and the distinction between gay rights and religious persecution just vanished. It begins with equality and ends with everyone losing their freedom.
But I love all these new freedoms we’re getting. We now have the freedom to do what various pressure groups want or go to jail. I hope we don’t get too many more new freedoms or we’ll run out of jail cells.
Officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, are threatening an elderly couple who run a wedding chapel with jail time unless they perform wedding ceremonies for gay couples.
Donald Knapp and his wife, Evelyn, both ordained ministers who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, have declined to host gay weddings based on their religious beliefs. The city is basing its claims on their “non-discrimination” statute now that the courts have cleared the way for same sex marriages in the state.
If a wedding chapel and its minister are a “public accommodation”, then the First Amendment just went up in smoke, which it was always bound to. Too many “conservatives” have the fanciful notion that the left can be compromised or that it will stop at some apparent to them “reasonable point”.
History shows that the left does not stop. It keeps going. It takes everything you have and then it puts you up against a wall.
“By declining to perform same-sex ceremonies and face up to 180 days in jail and up to $1,000 in fines. Worse, each day the Knapps decline to perform a requested same-sex wedding ceremony, they commit a separate and distinct misdemeanor, subject to the same penalties. Thus, if the Knapps decline a same-sex wedding ceremony for just one week, they risk going to jail for over 3 years and being fined $7,000. For the past several months, the City has privately and publicly threatened to apply Ordinance §9.56 to the Knapps if same-sex marriage became legal in Idaho and the Knapps declined to perform a same-sex wedding ceremony at The Hitching Post Wedding Chapel.”
The left will now pretend to distinguish so-called for-profit wedding chapels, but again it’s a meaningless distinction. It’s more onion-slicing. The endgame will hit every chapel and every church and synagogue and house of worship.
Because the left does not stop.
These are the same people who illegally leaked donor lists and got a man fired from his job because he donated to a group opposed to gay marriage. We’re not dealing with people who want equality. We are dealing with fascists. They will never stop on their own.
That is the distinction the city is trying to make, agree or not. Calling it a For Profit entity. It makes me think of the Las Vegas Wedding Chapels, I think there is even a drive through wedding chapel in Vegas, I have no idea how that would work. Such drive-throughs would seem to demean the institution to me. I’m under the impression these For Profits don’t actually issue a wedding license.
Maybe they have a store in there, sodas or whatever as well.
We are dealing with allowing for a “sinful lifetyle choice”.
.....Or be forced to revolt in due time.
Thanks. That's how it seemed to me.
Okay, you can get married at the hitching post and they file your license with the County Recorder.
http://hitchingpostweddings.com/wedding/packages/
Weddings starting at $80.
I have wondered when we would repeat Henry VIII’s and Elizabeth’s England.
Not sure about that, but would like to see the return of Queen Isabel’s Spain.
Government tyrants has officially placed themselves above God....
This cannot stand
All we have to do is get rid of the tyrants that demand perverts be honored.
My church has vending machines!!
That too!!
Actually, it already began when government officials started persecuting businesses that refused to cater to perverts. Depriving someone of their business and livelihood is the same as imprisonment and death. It is past time to put an end to this tyranny.
“JAIL TIME?” are you (fornicating) kidding me?
We now live in a fascist dictatorship.
All they have to do is plaster the walls with every passage from the Bible that condemns the queer agenda, and require every wedding couple to read it aloud at the start of every ceremony.
When the background from every angle reads “queers will burn in hell” in large print...well, they won’t want wedding pictures there.
Mary Tudor's England.
Sorry, had to point that out.
My church has vending machines!!
It either very old or behind the times.....................
BTTT!
Good article with updates about The Hitching Post in CDA.
Recall the mayor. Kick her out.
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