Posted on 12/03/2016 12:40:11 PM PST by kevcol
A pair of Arizona-based Christian artists is challenging the local law that threatens to fine and imprison them for refusing to make same-sex wedding invitations.
Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski, owners of Brush & Nib Studio in Phoenix, lost a case at trial level which accused them of violating a local ordinance that protects homosexuals from discrimination, Fox News reported.
The ordinance also prevents the business owners from publicly explaining their convictions or even defending their decision lest they face jail time for that as well. This apparent violation of the First Amendment protection of free speech is at the heart of the case.
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Of all the Wedding Invitation printers in Arizona, how did the offended couple just happen to “find” a Christian business that they knew would refuse their order? There were no other printers anywhere who would take their business?
They used to make laws forbidding you to do something harmful to someone else. Now they make laws to punish you for not doing something for someone else. Slavery by any other name...
Because jailing women of Christian conscience worked out so well for the Democrats in Kentucky, didn't it?
I guess if you want to refuse service to anyone for any reason, you have to go to law school or medical school first.
Shazam!
Memories Pizza took 2 days, 7 phone calls. Muh oppression...
They can, on the other hand, refuse to make them for Melania.
As a consequence of probably not reading Free Republic, Joanna and Breanna are likely clueless about their constitutional 14th Amendment, Section 1 protections.
14th Amendment, Section 1: All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
If such is the case, then Joanna and Breanna will not be able to protect their 1st Amendment-protected rights of religious expression and free speech from pro-LGBT activist judges as evidenced by the case that they have already lost.
First announce a 1000% increase in your fees and if they still want them then do the crapiest job you can imagine.
Print the invitations with Leviticus 20:13 on it.
I’m sure their lawyers know the amendment
Send the job out for someone else to do.
Are they allowed to refuse to print invitations to Trump’s inaugural balls?
I thought all this stupid $hit was going to stop when Trump became president. Business owners should be allowed to refuse service to anyone they choose especially if they ask for a service hey know is going to be refused so they can sue them.
We will sell you any cake on display
We will make you a birthday cake
We will make you a cake for any event...except for a gay marriage.
There’s no discrimination against a person, only an event. To be FORCED to agree to enter into a CONTRACT by the STATE is unconstitutional. Requiring you to spend your time and labor on an event of which you are a conscientious objector is compelled/coerced speech.
Black man owns a printing shop, man comes in wanting him to print flyers for a KKK parade...is it racist to refuse to do so? Of course not...there’s loads of examples.
unfortunately that is not what their objection is about- the gay community wants Christians to bow down and kiss their feet- They don’t want a ‘solution’ to situations like this- they simply want to force people of faith to disobey their Creator and to obey them-
so make them, just soooo badly they won't want to use them... no law against doing a bad job a little time wasted is better than a law suit
The (Un-)Affordable Care Act [ObamaCare] FORCES citizens into an insurance contract via the mandate, replete with penalties for failure to comply.
We are already living in a post-Constitutional America.
Time to turn the tables.
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