I also want to mention Catholic Chartities being forced to shut down their adoption programs in Massachusetts because they only believed in adopting to heterosexual couples. The whole article is a good read, and it is full of quotes of liberals supporting this law and being glad he shut his wedding business down because he is a "bigot". Liberals are using things like homosexual marriage and the healthcare mandate as tools to push Christianity out of society.
I'm waiting for the day when they enforce a law calling the Bible hate speech. You'll be allowed to be Christian, but only if you follow the fuzz, sanitized version approved by liberals.
Ping!
I am sorry for this man who lost his legitimate business because of evil people with an agenda.
However, I give him credit for sticking to his Christian priniciples and trust the Lord will bless him for his decision.
If a State decides that two (or more) people can marry, if that is all that happened, I could live with that because I don’t have to approve, change my beliefs or what beliefs I pass on to my children.
However, once gays and their supporters have sufficient influence with a State to redefine marriage, they don’t stop there. They use the State to forbid me from acting on my morality and beliefs. In fact, the State in some cases forces me to accommodation in their practices.
If I have children in public school, the State will insist on teaching them that gay marriage is just as normal as the God’s marriage. You will be sanctioned as a parent if you attempt to remove your child from such indoctrination.
If you run a business that could provide services to the public, you will be sanctioned if you decline to treat gays as non-gays. For example, if you run a wedding photography business, you will be sanctioned if you decline to photograph a gay wedding. This has already happened in California and New Mexico [1].
You may lose control of your own property. [2]
In short, gays will demand that non-gays accept them as moral equals, which they are not and cannot be.
When the State says they are equal it is forbidden for a private citizen to dissent from that status. In doing so, they seek to force me to give them approval for something that I will never approve of. It is that last point that galls gays the most.
Curiously, when advocates of gay marriage are asked if their policy also would allow polygamy or polyandry, they recoil in horror and insist that it does not. However, logic demands that it does. I would ask how same-sex parents are going to react in the future when, for example, Utah public schools officials require that teachers instruct the children that LDS-related polygamy is just as “normal” as same-sex “marriage”.
The fact that this will be an issue will show yet again that gay “marriage” is not about marriage at all it is about forcing the rest of us to approve of repugnant sexual immorality, something that LDS polygamists never demanded.
[1] Refusing To Shoot Gay Marriage Is Discrimination, Says New Mexico Appeals Court
http://www.popphoto.com/news/2012/06/refusing-to-shoot-gay-marriage-discrimination-says-new-mexico-appeals-court
[2] Judge Rules Christian facility cannot ban same-sex civil union ceremony on its own premises
http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/judge-rules-christian-facility-cannot-ban-same-sex-civil-union-ceremony-on
>>>While most wedding businesses across the country embraced the chance to serve same-sex couples...
Says who?
In a free country, people would be free to do business with whomever they wished. In a free country.
The govt does not belong in the marriage business. In this case, it’s persecuting those that refuse to service homosexual behavior. This is not the first instance of persecution and it won’t be the last.
I remember when Americans believed in the idea behind the First Amendment. When someone is compelled by law to either give up their religious beliefs or give up their business, America is no longer a free country. This act of evil by the far left disgusts me. It is precisely as revolting as the HHS mandate to pray for abortion for employees. The idea of another civil war worries me, but not as much as the idea of watching what used to be a free country continue down this path.
Calling the Bible “hate speech” is what Communists states did and do. Can’t do that here without decimating the First Amendment.
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That’s one way of going Galt. As far as Christianity being outlawed......it’s coming....it’s coming. The day of testing is drawing near.
I'm thinking that this bureaucrat is wrong, despite the court rulings.
For example, if a wedding shop opened that positioned itself as "The Amish Wedding Place", would it be illegal for them to carve out a market niche?
Likewise, if advertised as "The Traditional Christian Wedding Place", then I see any lower court getting over-turned for the same reason ObamaCare just got told there must be an accommodation for religious concerns.
Discrimination in Public Accommodations
Snip:
Federal law prohibits public accommodations from discriminating on the basis of race, color, religion, or national origin.
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Maybe take the state law to federal court.
Most of the comments at the source are disgusting and hateful beyond words.