Posted on 04/01/2015 7:52:00 AM PDT by Lady4Liberty
The owners of a small pizzeria in Indiana were seemingly the first business to say they would publicly deny service to LGBT couples in the wake of Indiana’s new and controversial Religious Freedom Law.
Shortly after Memories Pizza owners agreed in a local newscast that the Religious Freedom Restoration Act allows them to deny service to LGBT people who wanted their pizza at a same-sex wedding, 1-star Yelp reviews rolled in denouncing the business.
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That’s why the title is wrong.
The pizzeria is NOT denying service to LGBTLMNOPs.
They are saying they won’t cater a gay “wedding”.
So...individually they’re fine but in groups they’re sacrilegious?
If a group shows up to eat, no problem.
If they ask you to host an event, even for only two people, you can refuse to support it.
It’s not about what. It’s about why.
A black restaurant owner may serve lunch to a table of clansmen, but if they want to use his banquet room for a KKK meeting, even if only the same four show up, the first amendment allows him to exercise his free speech and religion by refusing to support the event.
What's going to happen next is people are going to call in pizzas and never pick them up. I hope they're prepared for this.
Not in Maine, Maryland, Minnesota or Washington.
She's doing both, but that happens from time to time. Deciding which is worse, violating what you see as God's commandment or discriminating against a group of individuals, is a personal decision for each individual. And that decision can come with a cost because not everyone will respect you for it.
If they ask you to host an event, even for only two people, you can refuse to support it.
I admit I don't see the difference and it strikes me as a pretty hypocritical. But still I agree that they should have the right to stand by their religious beliefs.
A black restaurant owner may serve lunch to a table of clansmen, but if they want to use his banquet room for a KKK meeting, even if only the same four show up, the first amendment allows him to exercise his free speech and religion by refusing to support the event.
I don't see how that applies because I don't see the religious connection in there.
This is only temporary. I guarantee you the gays and libs will prevail on this issue and just about already have. If you offer a public service for sale you will not be able to discriminate on who buys it.
Selling cakes to gays for their weddings is just the first step. what they really want to attack and invade is the church. While they have made inroads there they want to force all the churches to marry gays.
It is not about gays. It is about liberal control and dominance and destroying conservative values.
Jeremy Stoppelman the CEO at Yelp is part of the group calling for a boycott unless Indiana changes the law.
That’ll tell you right there. The business should base their decision on dollars lost, not threats and empty promises.
I support the right to deny service to jerks.
People are behaving like livestock and its dangerous.
False flag...
This whole homo fiasco is based a lie. No one refuses to serve queers. The refusal is against forced participation in offensive unholy events.
It all came about from an unlikely source: farm automation. Rural jobs greatly evaporated forcing young people into the city communes where they learned to be communists. Technology will swing back though: high speed internet everywhere and self-driving cars will empty out the Democrat hives. One terrorist nuke going off will seal the fate of city living.
In a truly free market system, people could run their businesses the way they wished. If they wanted to discriminate against anyone, they could and if one disapproved, they could go somewhere else. The discriminatory places of businesses might not last long if people chose to buy elsewhere.
It destroys any usefulness of Yelp, if anybody can down-thumb a business for a political reason instead of quality of product.
Imagine if somebody posted a list of gay owned businesses and people started down-thumbing them.
This is silly, God makes it rain on just and unjust alike, this is a terrible witness, and besides all of that there are few occasions where people are more willing to throw money around than weddings.
I do not fear businesses being required to follow civil law, how else are you going to be able to operate if everyone doesn’t follow the same ground rules? What I fear is Churches being invaded by secular authority, that is where the focus should be.
In this day and age they go somewhere else...and they leave their opinions on the shop on-line. Just the way it is.
Worse still. The militant gays will demand to be hired as deacons and pastors. They will demand to teach Sunday school wearing a dress and lipstick.
Then again, part of me says “I sell pizza, not social commentary. If two idiots want to play marriage, that’s their business. My job is to sell them pizza. But they can’t make me respect their pretend marriage”.
Shut up and sing.
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