Posted on 08/25/2019 7:09:44 AM PDT by marshmallow
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, August 23, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – The Christian owner of a Kentucky print shop who has spent years fighting for his right not to create “gay pride” T-shirts has taken his case to the state Supreme Court.
Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands On Originals Christian Outfitters, a Lexington company that advertises "high quality, customized Christian apparel.” For the past several years, he has been fighting the Lexington Human Rights Commission over his polite refusal of the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization’s (now called the Pride Community Services Organization) request to print shirts for the Lexington Pride Festival.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals sided with Adamson in 2017, and the Kentucky Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Friday, NBC News reported.
“For the last seven years, the government has tried to punish me for declining to print a message that violated my conscience,” Adamson told the public outside the court chamber. “So far, the lower courts have upheld my freedom as a creative professional, and I’m hoping the Kentucky Supreme Court will uphold that freedom as well.”
“Blaine serves everyone; he just doesn’t print all messages. In fact, Blaine has printed materials for a lesbian musician who performed at Lexington’s 2012 Pride Festival,” said attorney Jim Campbell of Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Adamson. “It’s all about the message that Blaine is asked to print; he’s not concerned with the person who requests it. Upholding Blaine’s rights protects freedom of speech for everyone.
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Another fake Cake attack.
As if there aren't any other (non-Christian) printing shops that they could make this request of..../s
The ‘Christian’ part of the business name got the attention of the attention-mongering Leftist weirdos....
I thought the USSC had already decided this issue.
Just say that I don’t want to offend Islamists.
I am in the promotional products industry. Among many other things I supply imprinted clothing and sportswear including t-shirts. I have a large variety of suppliers. Every one of my suppliers has a disclaimer that they have the right to refuse to print anything that violates their standards.
In our industry suppliers have always had the last word on what they will print on products.
That said most of them have jumped on the queer rainbow bandwagon because they see that as a great way to make money. The number of emails I got from suppliers pushing products with gay rainbows on them during gay pride month got to be somewhat nauseating.
How come there’s never any counter-suits in these cases for people attempting to suppress someone’s religious freedom?
Another case of harassment and persecution of Christians. There are other tee shirt printers in KY that would print those shirts.
Slavery is banned by the Constitution.
Fortunately, he doesnt have to stand alone. He is being represented by the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) (LINK), a pro-liberty group of lawyers with an excellent record of courtroom wins.
Please go to that webside and make a small (or heck, a large) contribution. If everybody who sides with freedom could kick in just five bucks, the Good Guys would be winning so trumpily, the Bad Guys would back off and save themselves the expense and humiliation.
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Two can play this ridiculous game. Just go to your local liberal-owned tee-shirt shop and ask them to make MAGA shirts.
Good question.
They are a publisher, not a platform.
And don’t forget, libs, they are a “private business and don’t have to give a platform to anyone they don’t want”.
This is the kind of push-back needed against the fascist faggots. Can’t believe it has taken years, and that they would drag this little T shirt company this far. I say it is time to remove all social accomodation from these deviant destroyers of Civilization and common decency. Drive them back under the rocks they crawled out from under. Even the harmless swishy hairdresser on nightly sitcoms. They aren’t as harmless as portrayed, and should be given no quarter.
Why don’t these brownshirts go to another shop to have their pervert shirts made up?
The Christian symbol of the rainbow and love has been hijacked by these LGBTQ miscreants. If you do not honor them the LGBTQ miscreants will claim you hate them. The rainbow symbol used by the LGBTQ miscreants originally defined God’s message to believers.
Because their goal is to target Christian-owned businesses and ruin them. Of course they know they could get their shirts printed elsewhere.
It’s never about getting a shirt printed.
It is always about destroying Christian values.
These gay freaks cannot survive if Christians are alive.
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