Just Ask Sodom
Posted on 10/13/2014 8:12:25 AM PDT by lowbridge
A civil rights commissioner has found that a Kentucky T-shirt company that refused to print shirts for a gay pride parade is guilty of discrimination, calling for its employees to attend diversity training — but the company likely won’t be backing down.
Greg Munson of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission announced last Tuesday that Hands on Originals, a T-shirt company based in Lexington, Kentucky, discriminated against the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington when it refused to print the shirts.
As TheBlaze previously reported, the gay rights group filed a complaint against Hands on Originals back in March 2012, alleging that it had been discriminated against due to sexual orientation.
Company owner Blaine Adamson has since argued that Hands on Originals is a Christian business and that the views espoused by the T-shirt — which advertised a gay pride festival — violated his religious beliefs.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal firm, has defended Adamson throughout the two-year legal process, with senior counsel Jim Campbell telling TheBlaze that the commission’s preliminary ruling isn’t definitively clear.
It reads, in part: “The Respondent’s refusal to provide goods and services of public accommodation to the Charging Party constitutes unlawful discrimination against the members of the [Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington] on the basis of sexual orientation and sexual identity in violation of Local Ordinance 201-99.”
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Civil Rights is a joke since it does not block foreign racist nations from selling here. Let us face it, what is this all about if we have good relations with places like China or Germany which accepts citizenship only on German blood lines?
You will lose the case and probably end up impoverished or imprisoned.
Playing nice with these people is dangerous.
Nope. They are the only losers who have no careers or jobs and are willing to take these positions.
Who else thinks “government” when they think of how to make their livlihood.
They are an axix of evil of busybodys, know-it-alls and nut jobs.
When and where did homosexuals become a protected class? Under federal law, the following are the protected classes:
Race – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Color – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Religion – Civil Rights Act of 1964
National origin – Civil Rights Act of 1964
Age (40 and over) – Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Sex – Equal Pay Act of 1963 and Civil Rights Act of 1964
Pregnancy – Pregnancy Discrimination Act
Citizenship – Immigration Reform and Control Act
Familial status – Civil Rights Act of 1968 Title VIII: Housing cannot discriminate for having children, with an exception for senior housing
Disability status – Vocational Rehabilitation and Other Rehabilitation Services of 1973 and Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990
Veteran status – Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 and Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act
Genetic information – Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act
Why is there so much “pretending” that homosexuals have rights or protections that just don’t exist?
The ruling came out on Monday. On Tuesday I tried an experiment in a college course I teach online. I presented the exact same scenario to the class as a hypothetical case study, with two differences: the customer had ordered Confederate Flag T-shirts for a Southern Pride Festival, and the T-shirt CEO was African-American. I also didn’t tell the class what the actual ruling was. I offered them the opportunity to analyze the case study using the course material, and then state how they would rule on the case.
By the end of Wednesday, every student had posted that the company should not be forced to make the shirts, and that since the T-shirt manufacturer had also provided information on a competitor who would be willing to make the T-shirts, no one was being treated unfairly.
On Thursday, I thanked the students for their responses, and then let the cat out of the bag: this was a real-life case study, except that the T-shirts were for a Gay Pride Festival, and the manufacturer was a Christian; I also attached the actual 18-page ruling.
I asked the students whether this had any effect on their previous posts. I expected some students to say it did, and others to say it didn’t, and perhaps some discussion on the distinctions between what is considered acceptable in the prevailing culture today as opposed to the past. I didn’t expect what actually happened: not one student posted a response to the actual case study, from Thursday until the end of Sunday when the forum closed down, even though at least 60 messages were posted in the forum over those four days. The only reasonable explanation for this would be fear. I get the chance to try it again in eight weeks; we’ll see if it happens again.
The defense must be that the gay group was not discriminated against because they could have chosen any of a number ofcompanies.
-PJ
Someone needs to call it like it is, and loudly -
The whole “gay rights” political movement is about criminalizing Christianity.
“gay rights” groups are INTENTIONALLY TARGETING CHRISTIAN BUSINESSES,
and the left is in full support of doing so.
The queer organization is an anti-Christian hate group .
Refusing to do business with a hate group is not discrimination.
That kind of power invariably creates bullys. Hitler surrounded himself with people with deformities or emotional defects. They had poor self esteem and compensated for that with the master race concept to boost their feeble egos.
So I repeat charge the gays triple the cost of the printing. In effect they will not be denied or refused services but just billed more for it.
The gay customer can either accept or refuse based on cost. That would change the tactics and open up another can of worms on a different level but rather than purely morals based it becomes an economic freedoms choice. Lets have that argument-—its all fluxed up anyway so why not?
Homosexuals have a right to be protected from murder, theft, fraud, assault -- just like all people.
But again, "Gay Rights" isn't about bequeathing or preserving rights. It's about DEPRIVING rights.
So Person A must print Person B rainbow flag tee shirt
But Person C does not need to print Person D American flag tee shirt..
In fact you can be banned from places including school for wearing an America flag tee shirt.
So only one of the two tee shirts is “correct” before the law
Yes we are all equal ..but some are more equal then other
Our “living Constitution” seem is now writing and edited at night with a bucket of paint on the side of a barn
the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission
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The local Witches&Warlocks Coven??
That’s a brilliant approach. Logic and reason to smash through the muddled thinking.
The true liberals of yesteryear might agree but the indoctrinated leftists of today are a different sort of breed. Keep us posted on your part 2. Thumbs up.
Civil rights are government granted and not ordained by God or Natural Law. The point is to force a choice between obedience to the elitists that run the state or obedience to God. What other countries do is of no concern.
America is dead and gone.
Replaced by fascist and deviant “Homo-America.”
But, but... being gay is more important than anything else in the universe!!! /sarc
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