Posted on 09/18/2017 1:06:09 PM PDT by Twotone
A federal court issued an order Friday that requires the city of East Lansing to allow a farmer to return to its 2017 farmer’s market after city officials developed a rule for the purpose of keeping him out because of his marriage views. The city ousted Steve Tennes and Country Mill Farms after reading a post on his Facebook page that expressed his religious belief in marriage as the union between one man and one woman.
“Just like all Americans, a farmer should be free to live and speak according to his deeply held religious beliefs without fear of government punishment,” said Alliance Defending Freedom Legal Counsel Kate Anderson, who argued in favor of the order on behalf of Tennes on Wednesday. “As the court found, East Lansing officials changed their market policy to shut out Steve because they don’t like his Catholic beliefs regarding marriage. The court was right to issue this order, which will allow Steve to return to the 2017 farmer’s market while his case moves forward.”
“The City of East Lansing must allow Plaintiffs to participate in the East Lansing Farmer’s Market for the remainder of the 2017 season,” the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Southern Division, wrote in its order in Country Mill Farms v. City of East Lansing. “On the evidence before this Court, the City amended its Vendor Guidelines and then used the changes to deny Country Mill’s vendor application. There exists a substantial likelihood that Plaintiffs will be able to prevail on the merits of their claims for speech retaliation and for free exercise of religion.”
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Glad these folks won against the real fascists.
Gee, wonder why this stuff only happens to Christians and not mohammadens?/sarc
My attendance at a reeducation camp assumes there’s a period of time between disarmed and dead.
OMG, I just had a chill run down my spine. Creeeeeepy!
Really creeeeeepy! LOL
Denying man made global warming would get you stoned to death in the public square.
That's the ticket. Also, in addition to suing the city, sue all "individuals" responsible for violating this farmer's 1st amendment rights.
Beyond suing in civil court there may be the possibility of criminal prosecution. If criminal laws were broken in denying the farmer his rights - insist that the DA prosecute the criminals.
This could be a win-win for our state’s attorney general, Bill Schuette, to get involved with. Lansing or Kent county’s lawyers aren’t going to touch this.
Probably the reason that this incident happened is because neither citizens, or the people that they elect as their local and state leaders, are being taught the Constitution anymore.
More specifically, if the farmer had a grip on his constitutional protections he might have saved himself a lot of trouble with low-information, local government officials by claiming his 14th Amendment 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.”
But the 14th Amendment is also evidence that patriots need to elect as many new patriot lawmakers to Congress as they can in the 2018 elections. This is because, regardless that we now have several incidents of the states using government power to punish Christians for exercising their 1A-protected freedom of religious expression, consider the following.
It so happens that even though the states gave Congress the 14A power to make federal laws which punish (imo) state officials who violate Section 1, Congress wrongly remained silent on violations of Section 1 throughout the lawless Obama Administration and continues to do so imo.
"14th Amendment, Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
So while I am happy that the farmer won his case, I’m going to wait until after the 2018 elections to open the champagne on his win. At that time we’ll hopefully have a lot of new faces in Congress who will not only support Pres. Trump, but will also be willing to make laws to punish state officials who make laws and policies that abridge personal constitutional rights, including religious expression.
Switching the emphasis on this issue to Pres. Trump, please consider the following.
Although Trump is accomplishing a LOT as president, it remains that since the anti-Christian Congress wants to get rid of him that his first two years in office are arguably for practice. That being said ...
Drain the swamp sewer! Drain the sewer!
Remember in November 2018 !
Since corrupt Congress is the biggest part of the sewer (imo) that Trump wants to drain, it is actually up to us patriots to drain the sewer in the 2018 elections, patriots supporting Trump by electing as many new members of Congress as they can who will support Trump.
In the meanwhile, patriots need to make sure that there are plenty of Trump-supporting candidates on the primary ballots.
Patriots need to qualify candidates by asking them why the Founding States made the Constitution’s Section 8 of Article I; to limit (cripple) the federal government’s powers.
Patriots also need to make sure that candidates are knowledgeable of the Supreme Court's clarifications of the federal government’s limited powers listed here.
“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Again, drain the sewer! Drain the sewer!
Uber creepy. bleh
There can be no peaceful coexistence with the homo-fascist left. I hope America wakes up to this, and drives these sodomites back into the holes where they belong.
Only after they take away your weapons.
That worthless bull dyke looks like Norman Bates.
She’s (?) probably not smiling, now. I don’t imagine that will be her last volley. Most of the lesbians I’ve worked around, are spiteful and vindictive. (At least the “male” counterparts).
+1 million on the /sarc tag
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