Posted on 01/16/2016 2:46:47 PM PST by kindred
"All Robert and I want is the freedom to peacefully live and work faithfully on our family farm and according to what God says about marriage without fear of government punishment. The America we love is one where we respect each other's differences, and the government still protects the freedom to have those differences. Others have the freedom to say or not say what they want to about marriage, and that's all we are asking for, as well." -Cynthia Gifford
(New York)—[CBN News] A New York court has upheld a state decision to fine a farm couple for refusing to host a lesbian wedding on their property. (Photo via LifeSiteNews)
The New York Division of Human Rights ruled in July 2014 that Cynthia and Robert Gifford were guilty of "sexual orientation discrimination" for refusing to allow Melisa and Jennifer McCarthy to use their "place of public accommodation" for their same-sex ceremony.
The Giffords said doing so would violate their conscience, but invited the two women to use their property for their reception site.
The state agency has ordered the Giffords to pay a fine of $10,000 plus $3,000 in damages and ordered them to implement re-education training classes.
On Thursday, the New York Supreme Court appellate division upheld the order and fines.
Melisa McCarthy originally called Cynthia Gifford in 2012 to ask about the use of Gifford's farm for her upcoming same-sex ceremony. [Because of her Christian faith's teachings on marriage, Cynthia politely told McCarthy that she and her husband don't host and coordinate same-sex ceremonies but left open an invitation to visit the farm to consider it as a potential reception site. Instead, McCarthy and her partner filed a complaint with the Division of Human Rights.]
Caleb Dalton, an attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom who represented the Giffords, said "the government went after both this couple's freedom and their ability to make a living simply for adhering to their faith on their own property."
"The court should have rejected this unwarranted and unconstitutional government intrusion, so we will consult with our client regarding appeal," he said.
This is a couple that should do a “bundy standoff”
Maybe this is part of the NY liberals that Ted was talking about. Right Trump?
Would not be surprised at all. But those people would really be butt hurt on this!
NY Values, in your face.
Never ever say that's the reason. Say you're booked or closed that day. There's nothing that says you can't change your mind and stay open that day.
Pay the fines, and leave the state. Tell the Marxist bureaucrats to shove the reducation camps deep up their rectums.
GNTA and at nearly the same moment!
meanwhile lil Don Don continues to TWEET images of the WTC.....as NYC Values...related..
what a CHILD!!
This is going to end up in the federal Supreme Court.
I would tell them to go F themselves and move to another state and if they chased me down I would go off the grid. They wouldn’t get a single solitary cent off me even if I had to bury my money in the desert. Cruz is absolutely right about New York and it’s “values”, it’s an evil fascist state, liberals idea of “utopia” and what they want for the rest of the country. I grew up in New York city and moved - more like escaped - 4 years ago. I couldn’t take it anymore. Every single aspect of your life is regulated and controlled. I tell people it’s like living in North Korea but with food, but only the food they allow you to eat. They LITERALLY stole my car, that’s how bad it is. I came out one morning to find my side view mirror laying in the street and a ticket in my windshield for “equipment violation” $150. Since my sideview mirror was electric and cost $500 I couldn’t buy one until payday, so every day they put on another ticket until it got to $600. THEN they towed my car because if you owe tickets over $250 that’s what they do. So I had no choice but to let them keep it as I didn’t have the outrageous amount of money they required to get it back. Basically the fascists said “We don’t want you to own a car” and they stole my car using a scam.
Yes, they need a few thousand armed militia up there. Upstate NY is still part of America. They should seceded from the five rotten boroughs and LONGGGGGGGGGGG
ISLAND, appoint their own judges and governor and kick that sick bastard Cuomo’s butt back to Brooklyn, or wherever the hell he and his daddy came from.
” The America we love is one where we respect each other’s differences, “
Really? You faggots get your panties in a twist and threaten us heteros with lawsuits to accept your putrid lifestyle!
I’m sorry for all the good people who have to live under New York values.
Our government is indeed run by evil deviants. Just like the media and our popular culture.
And just to have situations like this occur in the country I reside is so unfathomable. I say the ‘country I reside,’ because this is no longer America to me. Not with this kind of sick perversion, as in this cited story. The country I hold respect and allegiance to is a ghost-nation. A country and a people I would have fought and died for. Not this. Not this faggoty, degenerate sewer that America has devolved into.
So you want them to lie? I’d say the truth and I wouldn’t give the state and dime.
Concur
You're most certainly right but at what cost in attorneys fees to the Plaintiffs?
This is no different than the couple in Oregon who refused a wedding cake, a photographer in New Mexico who refused to take wedding pictures or the Kentucky county clerk who refused to issue a marriage license. These sodomites search out Christian businesses that advertise their Christian principles and then challenge them by in-your-face tactics. That is all part of their agenda to take our culture down.
They should go to a local mosque and demand they perform a baptism.
New York values!
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