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A preemptive step to avoid fines, possible jail time (city ordinance requires art for gay weddings)
One News Now ^ | Friday, November 30, 2018 | Chris Woodward

Posted on 12/02/2018 6:17:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Two Christian business owners in Phoenix are hoping their legal challenge to a local ordinance will usher in a happy new year for them.

Artists Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski (pictured) believe in traditional, biblical marriage – a belief that brought them into conflict with a Phoenix ordinance as owners of Brush & Nib Studio in the capital city (see more details on this case). The Arizona Supreme Court will decide in January whether to rule in favor of Duka and Koski – or uphold a lower court's ruling that says the artists must comply with an ordinance that requires they do artwork for all weddings, regardless of their religious objections.

The attorney representing Duka and Koski explains this is a preemptive challenge – meaning the artists are challenging this ordinance before they're found guilty of violating the ordinance, which requires fines and even jail time for guilty parties.

Waggoner "In terms of pre-enforcement challenges, this has been used in the Civil Rights-era many, many times, because Americans shouldn't have to wait to be thrown in jail before they can challenge an unjust law," said attorney Kristen Waggoner of Alliance Defending Freedom during an interview Thursday on Fox & Friends (see below).

Eric Fraser, the attorney representing Phoenix, says the artists in question want the court system to give them a "blank check" to refuse service to any same-sex couple that is requesting wedding products.

(Excerpt) Read more at onenewsnow.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; art; breannakoski; coercion; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; freedomofspeech; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; joannaduka; phoenix; slavery
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1 posted on 12/02/2018 6:17:41 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Behold ye the spirit of antichrist.


2 posted on 12/02/2018 6:19:20 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I am so tired of militant faggots.


3 posted on 12/02/2018 6:19:21 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
When moslem artists are required to do work for pervert "weddings" then maybe we can discuss Christians being required to do so.

And not a minute before.

4 posted on 12/02/2018 6:24:34 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I am so tired of militant faggots.

#################

So are millions.


5 posted on 12/02/2018 6:29:36 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
[I am so tired of militant faggots.]

Like the one who made the Stonewall Inn a "national monument".

His true father Satan told him how to destroy America.


6 posted on 12/02/2018 6:32:56 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Gay State Conservative

As if there were Moslem artists.

Unless you consider homicide vests to be works of art.


7 posted on 12/02/2018 6:38:25 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

we are living in a world where the mentally insane control it


8 posted on 12/02/2018 6:50:08 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I knew years ago that gays wouldn’t be satisfied until everyone was forced to participate in and celebrate their perversions.


9 posted on 12/02/2018 7:00:09 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (Twitter is Trump's laser pointer and the DemocRats are all cats.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
Hope they enjoy their party. They seem to want to make it rain (like some folks in Noah's day). Or....


10 posted on 12/02/2018 7:03:23 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

Fire and brimstone.


11 posted on 12/02/2018 7:11:21 PM PST by Mark17 (Genesis chapter 1 verse 1. In the beginning GOD....And the rest, as they say, is HIS-story)
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To: ronnie raygun
we are living in a world where the mentally insane control it


Today, the insane are beatified, and the sane are always wrong.
12 posted on 12/02/2018 7:20:32 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: Mark17
They truly are militant. From another article that was about one of their parades.

[LGBT/Gay Pride Parade & Festival]

Isaiah 3:9 New International Version (NIV)

9 The look on their faces testifies against them;
they parade their sin like Sodom;
they do not hide it.
Woe to them!
They have brought disaster upon themselves.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+3%3A9&version=NIV
13 posted on 12/02/2018 7:21:08 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

This is why the LIBS closed mental hospitals in the 60’s. They knew that all LIBS are lunatics . They feared being involuntarily committed .


14 posted on 12/02/2018 7:31:24 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This entire unconstitutional fiasco could have been avoided if Gov. Jan Brewer had just signed the religious freedom bill that the legislature passed a few years ago.


15 posted on 12/02/2018 8:24:19 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The types of situations were the EXACTL REASON people in numerous states passed their marriage amendments.


16 posted on 12/02/2018 8:25:29 PM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what they allow with impunity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They didn’t specify what style of
“art” must be displayed. I could
come up with a few themes that
would be completely out of character
for a gay wedding. I’m at a loss
though, as to what kind of art these
pervs deem appropriate. I envision
some guy biting a pillow.


17 posted on 12/03/2018 12:38:49 AM PST by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: Blood of Tyrants
I knew years ago that gays wouldn’t be satisfied until everyone was forced to participate in and celebrate their perversions.

Many here on FR predicted long ago that the end goal is to destroy the Church in America. The militant homosexuals won't be happy until every priest and pastor in every church will be forced by law to perform same sex marriages.

We are rapidly approaching that point.

18 posted on 12/03/2018 12:45:46 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Jeff Chandler
I am so tired of militant faggots.

A lot of people don't know enough about the agenda to be tired of them - yet.

Eventually, everyone will run up against the Gaystapo. And when they do, it will be a wake up call.

19 posted on 12/03/2018 8:40:46 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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To: usconservative
The Church is their prime target now, since the Gaystapo has conquered the military, the BSA, the entertainment and news media, the legal profession, the medical associations, and education at all levels. They will not tolerate the remaining bulwark against them.

Check out "Church Clarity" (https://www.churchclarity.org/) to see the psy-ops the left is waging. The website is purportedly about making churches "honestly post" their doctrinal positions regarding sexual perversion, but the intent is clear: to demonize Bible-believing churches and sick their goons on them.

I'll predict now that what will be their "in" most likely will be an attack on some homosexual or "trans" which will be connected with the preaching and teaching of some uncompliant church. The "hate crime" label will be hung around their neck and they will be forced to disband or capitulate.

20 posted on 12/03/2018 8:47:36 AM PST by fwdude (Forget the Catechism, the RCC's real doctrine is what it allows with impunity.)
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