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Posted on 10/25/2014 5:02:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Authorities in Coeur d'Alene Idaho have buckled under the pressureof nationwide outrage at their threat to jail two ordained ministers for not performing gay marriage in their wedding chapel and declared the "Hitching Post" wedding chapel exempt from their "non-dsicrimination" law.
The city has been embroiled in controversy ever since the owners of the Hitching Post sued the city. They say a city anti-discrimination law threatened to force them to marry same-sex couples now that gay marriage is legal in Idaho.
The story lit up conservative and gay-rights blogs. Wedding chapel owners Donald and Evelyn Knapp said they feared jail time or fines if they declined marriage services to a same-sex couple.
Initially, the city said its anti-discrimination law did apply to the Hitching Post, since it is a commercial business. Earlier this week, Coeur d'Alene city attorney Mike Gridley sent a letter to the Knapps’ attorneys at the Alliance Defending Freedom saying the Hitching Post would have to become a not-for-profit to be exempt.
But Gridley said after further review, he determined the ordinance doesn’t specify non-profit or for-profit.
“After we've looked at this some more, we have come to the conclusion they would be exempt from our ordinance because they are a religious corporation,” Gridley explained.
Court filings show the Hitching Post reorganized earlier this month as a “religious corporation.” In the paperwork, the owners describe their deeply held beliefs that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
The Knapps' attorney said the city is about to be tested on its approach. He said the Knapps have been contacted by the police about a complaint filed on Thursday by a same-sex couple who were turned away at the Old West themed chapel.
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Police officers are willing to stand by and watch officers killed by these animals, rather than speak out? I would think that at the very least, the families of the dead officers would be shouting this from the roof tops.
Obama is appointing a woman as the number two person at the Justice Dept, who wants to release everyone in prison for drug related crimes, that would have been Barac Amante.
Folks, there is not one job so precious that a homosexual employee can’t be fired for cause.
There is no apartment that can’t evict for cause.
There is no business that cannot remove customers for causing ‘incidents’.
Now do the math. How bad to you want to maintain your idea of America?
FIRE ( your mouth) at will Gridley! Seems like ol’Gridley is a regular Yosemite Sam foot shooter. I guess he wouldn’t need to read his whole freekin ordnance before shooting out the bottom of his boat——which will probly result in a career change in his near future?. He just caused way too much trouble to get away with it.
I just hope all of the middle-of-the-road dodo heads finally wake up and realize the seriousness of the gay movement. Then we can push back and get some counter pressure against these gay radicals.
That would make a great tee shirt...God, Family, Country!
Leftists want to jail anyone who opposes their agenda, and set free murderers, rapists and terrorists. (because their constituencies commit the crimes)
Was it the mayor of Coeur D’Alene that started this uproar? And isn’t she a big old lesbian?
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