Court orders Christian to pay $55,000 to trans politician for calling him ‘biological male’

LifeSiteNews ^ | March 28, 2019 | Lianne Laurence

[daniel1212]

One Canadian columnist gives his perspective: “For more than twenty years…I have been writing against the human rights commissions, which have quasi-legal powers that should be offensive to the citizens of any free country. They are kangaroo courts, in which the defendant’s right to due process is withdrawn. They reach judgments on the basis of no fixed law. Moreover [in addition to heavy fines], ‘the process is the punishment’ in these star chambers—for simply by agreeing to hear a case, they tie up the defendant in bureaucracy and paperwork, and bleed him for the cost of lawyers, while the person who brings the complaint, however frivolous, stands to lose nothing.” Here in Oregon we have our own kangaroo court system in the works. Aaron and Melissa Klein are bakers who refused to make a wedding cake for a homosexual marriage. The lesbian couple who tried to order the cake complained to the Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries (OBLI). The Labor Commissioner levied a fine of $135,000 and issued a gag order preventing the Kleins from speaking about the religious beliefs that had caused their refusal to honor this homosexual marriage with a cake. In his review of the proceedings, C. H. Fisher noted, “The Kleins were not charged and prosecuted in a traditional court of law. There was no due process, no jury of their peers, and their Constitutional rights were violated, including the First Amendment regarding freedom of religion. It amounts to Christian persecution not unlike what is occurring in some foreign nations.” https://www.thebereancall.org/content/homosexuality-and-reign-terror

Thanks. And in the similar Masterpiece bakery case in CO, the CRC did the like to them even though by not recognizing an out-of-state homosexual marriage (by refusing to be complicit in celebrating it by consenting to contract to provide a special work for that express purpose), then Masterpiece was actually acting consistent the CO state constitution which (by amendment) did not recognize homosexual marriage nor those from out-of-state.

[fwdude]

I’ve made this point repeatedly. In fact, the citizens of Colorado passed their Marriage Amendment EXACTLY to prevent this type of demand being made on other private people.

[21twelve]

The statement in the courtroom about “the Emperor has no clothes...” is, I think, related indirectly to transgenders and other forms of delusions about one’s body (anorexia, etc.)

Back in the 1400’s(?) there was a wave of social contagion that lasted for a couple of hundred years! People thought they were made of glass!! In order to move anywhere they would be packed in straw so they wouldn't break. Seriously.

The most famous was King Charles the VI of France. I'm guessing that is where the famous phrase came from about the clothing.

And I can forgive the deluded souls that are infected with the trans-cult message. But what about the people that do not have those delusions, but stand on the street (or the courtrooms, or the doctor's room, or the therapist's office) and play along with their delusions, doing irreparable harm?

https://daily.jstor.org/french-king-who-believed-made-glass/

[Verginius Rufus]

For years these commissions in Canada have been fining people for saying something that offended a homosexual, but I think that the fines tended to be about $5,000. This may be the first case where the fine was so much higher.

Oger still has Y chromosomes in every cell--would it be a crime in Canada to call him a "Y chromosome male"?

In the US we have the first amendment but the Democrats are doing their best to make that a dead letter.

[lepton]

by declaring it’s discriminatory not to accept transgender people as the gender they claim to be.

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Accepting identity-theft?

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Coming soon to a US location near you.

Oh, wait, it's already in NYC, so never mind.

PING!

[BookmanTheJanitor]

I’m very surprised that more people haven’t just snapped and gone nuts with all this absurdity.

[spirited irish]

You: you are to be forced to assert as TRUE what you know is FALSE... or be punished!

Exactly. With time, more power, and tighter control over media to change our perception of reality, we who cling to truth and reality can reasonably expect to hear that among the ranks of 'progressives' are those who are no longer mere humans. They have transcended mere humanity and duality (male and female) and are now androgynous gods and goddesses to which mere humans must bend the knee in worship.