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A Maryland DJ has refused to work a birthday party for a gay man...
Washington Post ^ | 6/12/15 | Michelle Boorstein

Posted on 06/15/2015 3:36:45 AM PDT by markomalley

First there was the New Mexico wedding photographer. Then there was the Indiana pizza maker. Now there is the Maryland disc jockey.

The national debate about how to balance religious conscience protections and gay equality flared in the large, mostly liberal Washington, D.C., suburb of Montgomery County Friday, when Dani Tsakounis tried to help her brother hire Ultrasound Deejays for a party. An owner of the business told Tsakounis he would not provide the DJ because Tsakounis’s brother, a Silver Spring therapist, is married to another man and the birthday party they are hosting is for their 60-year-old roommate, who is also gay.

“I just said, ‘We won’t be able to do it, we’re a Christian organization and it would go against our faith, I’m sorry,’” Michael Lampiris, co-owner of Ultrasound Deejays, said Friday.

Tom Tsakounis, 46, was so upset when his sister told him that he posted the news on his neighborhood listserv, prompting calls of sympathy from neighbors. He also registered a complaint with the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission, which hears cases of alleged discrimination.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: homosexualagenda; kofc
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To: DoodleDawg

They don’t have to do anything they don’t want to. They can DJ wherever the beck they want to. I’d like to see someone try to make ME play at some creepy, nasty, disgusting, depraved gay party. They wouldn’t like the answer I give them. Let’s just say it wouldn’t be very polite. These creepy, disgusting, gay degenerates can f**k off.


41 posted on 06/15/2015 5:26:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ReaganGeneration2

A business does NOT have to offer their services to anyone they don’t want to. It’s up to them to choose what offers to take up.


42 posted on 06/15/2015 5:30:15 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: DoodleDawg
How the beck is playing at a party where one of the couple has been married b4 condoning adultery? Do you even know what adultery actually is?
43 posted on 06/15/2015 5:38:16 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: markomalley
It's a poorly designed website, IMO.

Appears to be. Who would have thought to click on the flag to get their policy. Maybe if they made it more of a centerpiece of their site or put it under the "About Us" link then the whole issue could have been avoided.

44 posted on 06/15/2015 5:40:23 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Ancient Man
Anyone who’s seen the at bars and nightclubs knows their behavior, unless of course they’re blind.

Can't say I frequent gay nightclubs or bars so again I'll have to defer to your experise in that area.

45 posted on 06/15/2015 5:41:41 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: jsanders2001
Wonder what would happen if a Christian tried hiring a gay DJ and madd him play Christian music all night long? I bet you would hear that a Christian bigot “forced” a gay to do something against his beliefs and there would be a lawsuit filed.

And if that happened would you be supporting the DJ or the Christian?

46 posted on 06/15/2015 5:42:42 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: markomalley

“I can’t do that, because it would offend Muslims”


47 posted on 06/15/2015 5:43:20 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: cyclotic
That’s not to say that I find the person abhorrent.

Of course not.

48 posted on 06/15/2015 5:44:00 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: silverleaf

‘Isn’t that an overreach here?’

No.

Homosexuality ITSELF is a debauchery. Gays aren’t just like you and me except bla bla bla. Rather they are deviant, abandoned animals who do things at their “celebrations” that are so far beyond the pale that they’ve got to be seen to be believed.


49 posted on 06/15/2015 5:46:16 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job...)
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To: silverleaf

I hate when people use the umbrella of “Christian” to cover for the fact they don’t want to do something. Just say “I am not doing it”.
If something is wrong, it is wrong, no matter your religion.


50 posted on 06/15/2015 5:47:32 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: markomalley

My advice to this chap is to move and move now. The People’s Republic of Maryland is no doubt about to drag his arse through the gauntlet.


51 posted on 06/15/2015 5:48:12 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: DoodleDawg

Who said “Gay bars and night clubs?” I certainly didn’t. Strike three.


52 posted on 06/15/2015 5:48:16 AM PDT by Ancient Man
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To: SmokingJoe
How the beck is playing at a party where one of the couple has been married b4 condoning adultery? Do you even know what adultery actually is?

Yeah, it's right there in the Bible: "And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." - Mark 10, 11-12

So the question remains. Would the DJ play at the marriage or a party for a couple who were divorced and remarried?

53 posted on 06/15/2015 5:48:55 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: SmokingJoe

“A business does NOT have to offer their services to anyone they don’t want to.”

Actually no. That’s what that whole Jim Crow thing was about. You cannot discriminate based on sex (unless you are an all-girls school) or race (unless you are an all-black organization) or religion (unless you are.....OK just forget what I said.


54 posted on 06/15/2015 5:50:15 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: silverleaf

not wanting to be exposed to the deviancy on display at homosexual ‘celebrations’ is not bigotry. it’s just common sense hygiene

if you’re unsure, turn off your google image adult filters and google ‘goatse’ or ‘folsom street fair’.

anyone that thinks that is normal is just whacked and has mental issues themselves.


55 posted on 06/15/2015 5:51:01 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: DoodleDawg

>>Who would have thought to click on the flag to get their policy. Maybe if they made it more of a centerpiece of their site or put it under the “About Us” link then the whole issue could have been avoided.

True, but on the other hand, it may have made them a target sooner.


56 posted on 06/15/2015 5:55:54 AM PDT by markomalley (Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good -- Leo XIII)
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To: jsanders2001

no, their purpose is to attack the Christian business and hopefully get the state to shut them down... thereby helping out the fag oriented businesses

they’ve been doing this across the country.


57 posted on 06/15/2015 5:56:51 AM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: DoodleDawg

In this country divorce is perfectly legal. Most Christian churches outside of the catholic church, recognize divorce. Dating someone else after divorce e is NOT, REPEAT. NOT adultery.


58 posted on 06/15/2015 5:57:05 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Nash. He is not moving anywhere. Remember the Christian pizza restaurant owner who refused to serve a gay wedding? Let the gay Gestapo bring it on. This would be heaven sent opportunity for Ted Cruz to smoke somebody.


59 posted on 06/15/2015 6:01:09 AM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: markomalley
True, but on the other hand, it may have made them a target sooner.

I doubt from the people trying to throw the party. Now the state of Maryland may have been all over them.

60 posted on 06/15/2015 6:02:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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