RE: There are 21 states that have a version of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act enacted by their legislature:
I notice New Mexico is on the list.
Pretty useless RFRA there as a Christian photographer was taken to court for refusing to shoot a gay wedding.
SEE HERE:
http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/5537
Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys represent Elane Photography and its owners, Jonathan and Elaine Huguenin. In 2006, Elaine received an e-mail from a woman about photographing a “commitment ceremony” between her and her same-sex partner and asking if Elaine would be “open to helping us celebrate our day….” Elaine politely declined to use her artistic expression to communicate a message at odds with her beliefs. The woman who approached Elaine, Vanessa Willock, easily found another photographer for her ceremony—and for less money. Nevertheless, Willock filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission. After a one-day administrative trial in 2008, the commission ruled against the Huguenins and ordered them to pay $6,637.94 in attorneys’ fees to Willock.
The case then made its way through the New Mexico state court system, and the New Mexico Supreme Court upheld the ruling. In a concurrence accompanying the court’s opinion, one of the justices wrote that the Huguenins “now are compelled by law to compromise the very religious beliefs that inspire their lives,” adding “it is the price of citizenship.”
What a lot of folks do not realize is that the law was in place to protect folks like priests from marrying gays.
Most states have laws that require that service be provided without regard to discrimination stuff.
RE post 32 court case and decision upending law
Judges names please and if available pix
Funny thing was New Mexico didn’t even recognize same sex marriages when she was brought up on charges for refusing them service at their wedding ceremony.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-sex_marriage_in_New_Mexico
Yep.
So, one wonders why LBGT is making an issue out something they’ve already defeated...