Posted on 04/08/2015 7:17:11 AM PDT by detective
You know, the Ten Commandments, it says you can’t commit adultery; it says you need to honor your father and mother. If someone didn’t honor their parents or commit adultery, would you serve them?” This question was posed by CNN reporter Gary Tuchman to Georgia florist Melissa Jeffcoat, who had previously said she’d refuse to service a homosexual commitment ceremony. When she answered affirmatively and was pressed on why (supposedly) she’d serve adulterers and those dishonoring their parents but not homosexuals, she replied, “It’s just a different kind of sin to me. I just don’t believe in it.”
Tuchman surely thinks himself clever, and he did get the sound bite he wanted. He closed his segment with, “In these flower shops they’re happy to do business with you, but not so much if you tell them you’re gay.” And that was mild compared to Raw Story’s Arturo Garcia, who accused Jeffcoat of “hypocrisy.” It’s all very effective rhetorically, too, but also reflective of the illogical thinking characterizing our modern debates.
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And if an adulterer came in, said he wanted flowers for his mistress, the florist could very well deny him his services. These questions are stupid.
Unfortunately, these are ordinary people who were ambushed. I wish the florist had simply ushered the reporter out.
If I was such a decorator, I’d say, “Mine is an art, just as sculpting or painting. Every painter or sculptor is free to decline to create commissioned piece for any reason, or for no reason. I decline various cake-art or flower art pieces at my own discretion.”
Brilliant!
As someone who has recently worked in retail, I wouldn’t be surprised at anything a customer said, including “I want a dozen roses for my mistress.” People are VERY strange.
The Press knows what its doing, which is why they are doing it. This week’s Good Wife had a mock trial with this very topic. It’s why that show is on the air.
Something had to take Law and Order’s place as the political shill show for the left. West Wing is done. I don’t think the Cokehead has anything left in him.
The opportunity for the right to have a show like that was presented when Blue Bloods hit the airwaves. Problem is it is run by SeeBS. Ailes isn’t a conservative - but he does know an underserved market when he sees it.
What you WON’T see on the Good Wife is two, what do we call them nowadays, homosexual men walk into a florist. On the door of the florist is a crucifix. There is a crucifix on the wall behind the counter too.
They order flowers for a gay wedding. The woman behind the counter is distressed, because she knows exactly into which position she’s being placed.
She pleads, “Please, there are other florists happy to help. Have you consulted them? There is one literally on the next block, and I know they are happy to do these sorts of ceremonies.”
One of them replies, “We know. We’re here to put you out of business. Fill the order or we will sue you.”
With that, she stiffens, becomes resolute and says, “Kindly leave.”
They leave, but the other says, “See you in court.”
They sue, she provides a recording of the encounter capture by the CCTV system she installed after she’d been robbed last year. She introduces it as evidence, and the evidence is ruled as prejudicial and excluded.
She loses in court.
The judge, a man, goes home. He pulls into the garage of his beautiful home, walks in the kitchen, kisses his husband, and they sit down to eat dinner.
The credits roll.
That’s an episode of Good Wife I’d like to see.
Honoring people includes being truthful with them out of love and not enabling their sickness.
The MSM is proving how crazy and ignorant they are they don’t report news they make up news.
“If someone didn’t honor their parents or commit adultery, would you serve them?””
The reponse should have been, “they did this because they were gay?”
But the way to answer would be,
“If they want me to do flowers for a “Celebrate Our Adultery” ceremony, no, I would not do that.”
” Would a black cross-maker who sells crosses to Christians have to provide them to a KKK rally?(he tells her that’s what its for)
Would she have to supply flowers for a wedding of a known bigamist who tells her he’s already married?
Thats the correct comparison. “
Nailed it.
People (with the exception of teenagers) are not proud of abusing their parents and certainly are not a political movement. Maybe the MSM should take up the teenage rights issue - you know the right to leach and free ride while openly hostile to the host — another way to destroy society by weakening the family.
Flower shops sell to adulterers all the time. The difference is the cards don't say "to the other woman in my life, who is a secret from my wife". It's not a different kind of sin, they are both a rebellion against God's perfect guidance for living our lives, just a difference in visibility. The difference is that a gay "marriage" is an open sin, while adultery is not blatantly obvious to the florist. The journalist may have gotten lucky, but she was more likely looking for an inarticulate florist and eventually found one.
How about asking if they would provide flowers, photography, cake for a Satanic ritual?
That seems like a more appropriate comparison.
Christians would be wise to stop talking to reporters. They are not our friends.
The activists ambushing these Christian businesspeople are despicable.
But these florists, bakers, and photographers, if they are going to choose this ditch to die in, are doing nobody any good by being inarticulate. “It’s a different kind of sin...” and “I just don’t believe in it...” are just not intelligent answers.
Most sinners don’t define themselves by the sin they commit. In the case of most sins also, they tend to be ones where one person offends another. In the case of the sin in question, it not only offends others in requiring tyranny to exist in order to protect it, it is an affront to God by spitting on his established order of male and female, ordained by Him at the beginning.
Notice. The questions are formed toward ‘people’, not behaviors.
Should a Christian florist sell flowers to a homosexual man or woman, or a known adulterer? Sure, why not.
Should a Christian florist sell flowers for a homosexual ‘wedding’, or an adultery party, thereby participating and ‘legitimizing’ that behavior? No, not even.
It is behaviors, not people.
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Good point. Note also that the florist in WA sold flowers to those gay guys all the time. It was the ceremony she wanted no part of. Same with one of the bakeries.
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