Posted on 02/20/2015 2:12:22 PM PST by steve86
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) - A Tri-Cities florist has declined state Attorney General Bob Ferguson's offer to settle a discrimination case involving flowers for a gay wedding.
Barronelle Stutzman on Friday sent a letter to Ferguson rejecting his offer to settle the case by paying a $2,000 fine and agreeing to sell flowers to people planning gay weddings.
Stutzman says in a press release that she continues to believe that marriage should be between one man and one woman.
The 70-year-old Stutzman has earlier said she plans to appeal a judge's ruling that she broke a Washington state anti-discrimination law by refusing to provide flowers for a gay wedding.
Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom on Wednesday rejected arguments that Stutzman's actions were protected by her freedoms of speech and religion.
Hang in there Arlene.
Good deal! Thanks for the “How to help Arlene” info.
And protected by the 1st amendment’s freedom of assembly.
Her only hope is that somewhere along the way Washington has not updated the code. I kind of doubt that.
The Civil Rights Acts of 1964 meant some rights were lessened and others strengthened. The right of free association lost out, and has never recovered.
I do wonder how "Curves" gym gets away with it. Of course not all animals are equal in Obama's Animal Farm USA, so the question sort of answers itself.
Benton County Superior Court Judge Alex Ekstrom is a primary target to face charges of treason.
Here’s a description of the Nazi judges at Nuremberg:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/alstoetter.htm
A few key points:
“In the Justice trial, American prosecutors sought to demonstrate a pattern of judicial and prosecutorial support for Nazi programs of persecution, sterilization, extermination, and other gross violations of human rights.”
“They came to see themselves as fighters on the internal battlefront, with the responsibility to punish “the enemy within.”
“We pass now from the forgoing incomplete summary of Nazi legislation to a consideration of the law in action, and of the influence of the Fuehrer principle as it affected the officials of the Ministry of Justice, prosecutor, and judges. Two basic principles controlled conduct within the Ministry of Justice. The first concerned the absolute power of Hitler in person or by delegated authority to enact, enforce, and adjudicate law. The second concerned the incontestability of such law. “
Whatever happened to businesses, “We reserve the right to serve...”?
A very inspiring story thanks for the link.
Waiting for the State Attorney General to start suing halal butchers and kosher delis for not serving pork, ham and bacon.
I saw the story. A lesbian couple adopted or produced a child. They wanted this pediatrician to do the six-week well-child exam and become the child’s doctor, but the pediatrician wrote to them saying she believed another doctor who was more supportive of their family arrangement would be better for them. The child was not sick; it was not an emergency, and the laws in the doctor’s state permit a doctor to refuse a service relationship with a potential patient. The doctor did nothing wrong, except in the eyes of the PC screechers. So of course, the lesbians posted it on FaceBook to throw the hate mail floodgates open.
“Don’t use the word “target,” or you’re likely to have a SWAT team at your house.”
That may be true, but my sheriff has a bigger SWAT team. He can roll out a battalion of armed men (2,000 is a battalion) into a confrontation against little, castrated federal weenies,
Can we order an arrangement and send it to the prosecutor? Something along the lines of a Judas tree?
Why would a married doctor with young children at home want to take on patients who willingly deal in fecal play and immune system disorders and who are in denial about the real state of their health? Why would he or she want to take those disease exposures home to his or her own family? Why would the doctor want crossdressers and body mutilators in the waiting room with the natural mommies, infants and children?
If you have ever seen someone who is dying of AIDs and covered with opportunistic infections because of a destroyed immune system, you might understand why a doctor might refuse. You can tell people that anal sex rips and tears membranes that were not designed to be used that way, and you can tell people that oral sex and oral-anal contact is inherently risky, but it is another matter to deal with advanced stages of the diseases and ailments that come from a fetishistic application of sex toys and maladaptive sexual behaviors that are essentially voluntary.
Does a doctor have the option to stop treating an unregenerate alcohol or drug abuser who refuses rehab? Same thing.
Unless the state is equally willing to force mosques to hire Christian imams, or force kosher butchers to sell pork, you're just spouting the party line.
There is no basis in Christianity for racism, or for refusing to feed someone of a different race. There is every basis in Christianity for refusing to participate in a "gay wedding."
I agree with your analysis. The story is being spun in the media to give an entirely different impression, i.e., that the child’s health was somehow threatened,or treatment was delayed (both false), and that it is not NORMAL for both doctors and patients to seek out client relationships in which they are both on the same page about basic health issues, basic medical morality, and general philosophy of care, and even basic world view.
I do wonder how “Curves” gym gets away with it.
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It’s probably owned by a homo. No problem.
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