Posted on 08/18/2014 1:33:39 PM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
An Albany area farm which rebuffed efforts by a same-sex couple to hold their wedding at the site has been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay the women $1,500 each for their mental anguish.
In New York State Division of Human Rights v. Liberty Ridge Farm, 10157952/ 10157963, Administrative Law Judge Migdalia Pares of the Bronx rejected the owners' argument that the farm, which is their home, is not a place of public accommodation and is therefore not subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of the Human Rights Law.
the Giffords are considering their next step, including a possible appeal based on the Hobby Lobby ruling.
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Might be pertinent: http://libertyridgefarmny.com/
Looks like a large scale family farm. We have these locally to me and some do in fact offer lots of weekend events, pick your strawberries, corn mazes etc.
BUT...BUT...these are actual homesteads first and foremost.
“If I have a business of any kind, I can discriminate all I like. I can choose to do business with anyone I want to. It is called free enterprise.”
Nope.
Ever since the civil rights movement, businesses lost autonomy over who they serve or do business with. You only have as much freedom as the government decides to give you. You cannot refuse to serve black people, or Muslims, or women, and in many parts of the country you can no longer refuse to serve homosexuals. The battle was lost half a century ago, once it is established that government runs all businesses, forcing you to cater a homosexual wedding is a tiny step.
See here: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Farm-owners-fined-for-declining-to-host-same-sex-5689486.php?
I think I recanize those two-—aren’t they Washington Redskins Hogettes? If I could just see them in a purty flowerdy Amar-sized dress I’d know fur shure. They automatically qualify for entry into my next Big Girl Team draft, or at least one does. There’s a dike in there somewhere?
Since it’s a farm it could be fertilizer spreading time. Maybe hog killing time. Maybe even rodeo season. Farms are not always mellow, quiet places?
I don’t agree with the homo sex discrimination laws but it’s poor lawyering to defend the client claiming their farm is a family home and therefore not subject to the owners’ “argument that the farm, which is their home, is not a place of public accommodation and is therefore not subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of the Human Rights Law” When their website clearly advertises as a business.
http://libertyridgefarmny.com/gifford-barn/
The ‘public accomodations’ portion of the 1965 Civil Rights Act did away with personal property rights.
Goldwater warned this would be the outcome.
Truth be told, I am not a farmer, although I always enjoyed visiting them as a child. Seems to me that it’s a bit early for hog-killing time. I thought that took place in the cold part of the fall. I don’t know when it’s fertilizer spreading time, although I would think that would take place before spring planting. Rodeos on a farm that advertises itself for weddings and other social events? Kind of doubt it.
Seems they would be a lot more predisposed to “mental anguish” because they are two unnatural deviants who abuse each other with toys. Refusal of service at some farm is pretty mild compared to all that.
And somebody pay these hags a visit. With a gunny sack and a Louisville Slugger.
I am not saying what the law is, I am saying how it is in my world. Those are my principles and I will not be bullied.
I think they meant to say they can be used as dikes.
Yeah, you just have to love the “tolerance.” Isn’t it amazing how someone’s propensity for something unnatural and, frankly, perverse, trumps someone else’s Constitutional rights to be religious in their life. It is disgusting, to witness.
Making a lie law, doe not make it true. It is still the same old error and everybody knows it in their hearts.
The Apocalypse Of Saint John 22:[11] He that hurteth, let him hurt still: and he that is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is just, let him be justified still: and he that is holy, let him be sanctified still. [12] Behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to render to every man according to his works. [13] I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end. [14] Blessed are they that wash their robes in the blood of the Lamb: that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city. [15] Without are dogs, and sorcerers, and unchaste, and murderers, and servers of idols, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.
“The ‘public accomodations’ portion of the 1965 Civil Rights Act did away with personal property rights. Goldwater warned this would be the outcome.”
And Goldwater was right.
But it’s not hard today to find a whole herd of conservatives singing the praises of the 1965 Civil Rights Act and bragging that the GOP was responsible for passing it.
And the GOP does deserve the blame for this monstrosity; primarily the Rockefeller wing, the arch nemesis of conservatives.
Americans too young to have been around in 1965 hear Limbaugh, Hannity and Beck boasting about the GOP passing this Mother of Thought Crime laws and they think it’s a good thing and something conservatives should be proud of.
If that’s the case then everyone ought to quit complaining about government bureaucrats threatening to prosecute them over anything that violates the progressive religion regarding race, sex, gender, etc., because the Civil Rights Act opened the door for it.
How come we weren't invited? I did promise I wouldn't vomit when it was my turn to kiss whatever they had selected as the "Bride."
“How come we weren’t invited? “
‘Good luck’ would be my first guess.
The two of them would work beautifully in one of those two person camel (the two bump of course) costumes
That’s crazy. The judiciary run amok.
Meh, but not bad compared to most of the ugly homosexuals.
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