It’s one thing to provide merchandise and goods to an event over the counter, and not attending an event.
It is something else entirely when your attendance is required.
Consider that a DJ was hired to do a pedophile orgy with numerous children in attendance. If it were busted by the cops wouldn’t he go along to jail with the rest of them?
We still have the right of freedom of association.
So...by working the party he would be giving his implied support to birthdays?
There is nothing “Christian” about a birthday party. This business owner is just a bigot. Nevertheless I would disagree with the legal system being used to force him to serve anyone
There need to be exemptions for small businesses that can’t be expected to find an employee willing to attend these kinds of events. Especially in a metro area where There are be tons of DJs whose primary audience just happens to be gay.
The DJ should just have a policy of refusing to play certain songs such as ‘YMCA’ or ‘In the navy’ and he will be left alone.
Why don’t the DJs simply create a contract that says if the behavior turns inappropriate (as the DJs define it), the DJs will leave?
Since it’s Montgomery County he will probably get 20 years to life.
Note to all gay dumba$$e$:
There is more than one DJ, bakery, or florist in your town. Try the others.
Unless you are trying to be offended for profit.
This is NOT the sale of an object.
This is the demand for participation in an environment he finds disgusting and personally disapproves of.
This is the kind of garbage the Washington Post considers news. Meanwhile, every year hundreds of thousands of people in DC march for life, but the Post can’t bother to cover the demonstration.
“I can’t do that, because it would offend Muslims”
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.
Because everyone knows that there is a dearth of gay DJs.
First: He should state "I'm an individual, not a government, the Constitution doesn't limit me"
Second: DJs should be banned. The queers should either play their own recordings, or hire a real band.
100% did not “marry” in the orthodox church. Are they being sued? why use the sister? This has all the stench of a set up and not a legitimate case.
I see the eventual conclusion to this as protection via contract law. That is, Christian oriented businesses have been around for a long time, and even list in directories with other Christian businesses.
However, if they offer their services to the general public, the law will not protect them against discrimination suits.
So the way around this is to only offer services through a network of conservative Christian churches. Churches can legally discriminate on grounds of morality, so would act as a *contractual* screen against immoral behavior.
Such contracts are pretty bullet proof in the courts, as long as there is any “consideration”, a small fee paid to the churches to act as a screen, by individual businesses.
In practice, the potential client would call the business to request goods or services. The business would tell them that they exclusively provide these goods or services by contract through a list of churches in the area, so which church are the clients going through?
The clients won’t know of the contract, so the business lists for them the churches they cater to. If they do not want church approval, are secular, are immoral, etc., then the business can legally turn them down, as it would be a violation of their contract.
The business can even provide a checklist to the churches about acceptable behavior they can ask potential clients about. If the potential clients lie, it is a violation of the separate contract, and the business can refuse those goods or services.
Budget cut hit: “Montgomery County Human Rights Commission.”
I’m amazed Washington Poop actually used the word G-d in an article. Isn’t that illegal for them?
Oh, right in the heart of liberal-land!
Maryland “Freak State” PING!