I'll have one of theee please!
Posted on 03/06/2018 4:34:05 AM PST by huldah1776
A Christian bridal shop in Pennsylvania that has faced death threats will shut its doors permanently due to the strong likelihood that a local town council will pass a law banning discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.
W.W. Bridal in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, which made headlines in 2014 and again in 2017 because of the Christian owners' refusal to sell wedding dresses to same-sex couples, has announced that it will close down officially on March 30.
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Co-owner Lisa Boucher, who owns the store along with her mother and two sisters, told The Christian Post on Monday that there are multiple reasons for the family's decision to close the shop.
Chief among them is the high probability that the Bloomsburg Town Council will pass an ordinance banning stores and other places of public accommodation from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation no matter what their religious beliefs might be.
Boucher said that the potential ordinance is similar to an initiative that failed to clear the council in 2014.
"So what they (the LGBT community) did was got enough people to run for town council and they had a lot of the kids from [Bloomsburg University] vote those members in so a law could be passed," Boucher explained to CP. "We actually have a document from the Democratic Committee here pretty much saying that there is going to be a fight with W.W. Bridal."
Boucher assured that there will be no religious exemption provided in the ordinance.
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Yes, pig farmers should have the right to force Jewish and muslim delis to serve pork.
Baseball fans should be able to sue football leagues for not playing baseball.
Blacks should be able to sue novelists who only write about white people.
Women should be able to sue men’s clothing stores that do not sell brassieres.
Rock’n’roll fans should be able to sue orchestras and opera companies.
Gamblers should sue churches for not having slot machines.
Alcoholics should sue libraries and cemeteries for not hosting loud parties with bartenders. Public accommodations should serve all the people!
i don’t. I try not to give any $$ to queers and their agenda.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if they do vote in both places.
Bookmark.
I support the baker and florist. But if a law against discrimination on the bases of sexual orientation passed this shop would not be in the same circumstances. They sell wedding gowns. There is no special artistic talent involved. Talent that requires the artist use his or her personal expression to help celebrate an event.
Both the florist and the baker were clear that they sold their ready made or even custom made items (if the event did not go against their Christian beliefs)to anyone, including people they knew were gay. It was clear that in their normal business dealings they never discriminated. It was only when called upon to use their artistic talent and to enter into a contract that they refused.
I do support the owner’s right to refuse to sell wedding gowns as she pleases and absent of a law regarding discrimination she is free to do so. But should the law pass she probably should not rely on any potential SCOTUS ruling on the baker and florist.
Bloomsburg, PA. A college town. A little outpost apparently of Liberal moonbattery in the solidly red “T” section of the state.
The war will be won, at least for the foreseeable future, if the Supreme Court rules in favor of a Christian baker in Denver who was fined for refusing to bake gay wedding cakes. That case will be decided before the end of June.
If a "bride" wishes to just purchase the gown without alterations, the shop should have to sell it to them.
When will the nation stop funding Stalinist education?
I have to disagree. My mom was an excellent seamstress and did lots of alterations. There was skill and labor involved but it was not artistic talent. So I would still figure that as a standard purchase. Pretty much all bridal gowns must be altered. Now if the bridal shop did custom designs declining to do a special design for a same sex wedding would be like the baker or florist refusing to provide a custom cake or arrangement.
It ought to. Or at least vindicate Jack Phillips, who was actually acting consistent with the state constitution at the time, as well as Scripture, unlike the CO civil rights commission.
I am not so sure about that, while you mean a black of Jewish sign maker must be compelled to sell white robes knowing that are to be specifically for a KKK activity?
Both the florist and the baker were clear that they sold their ready made or even custom made items
And in the case of Jack Phillips not wanting to be an accomplice to a gay wedding, he was actually acting consistent with the state constitution at the time, as well as Scripture, unlike the CO civil rights commission.
I am not so sure about that, while you mean a black of Jewish sign maker must be compelled to sell white robes knowing that are to be specifically d for a KKK activity?
Both the florist and the baker were clear that they sold their ready made or even custom made items
And in the case of Jack Phillips not wanting to be an accomplice to a gay wedding, he was actually acting consistent with the state constitution at the time, as well as Scripture, unlike the CO civil rights commission.
What do you do if they are in your family?
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