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Federal Judge Dismisses Case of Christian Photographer Who Refuses to Take Pictures of Same-Sex Weddings
Law & Crime ^ | 12/17/21 | Marisa Sarnoff

Posted on 01/09/2022 5:48:50 PM PST by marshmallow

An Upstate New York wedding photographer has lost her bid to refuse service to same-sex couples after a federal judge dismissed with prejudice her lawsuit against the state.

Emilee Carpenter, a photographer and blogger based in the Southern Tier, sued the state in April, alleging that the state’s human rights law violated her First Amendment rights to free speech, free association, and free religious expression. She also said the law violated the establishment clause and her right to due process.

Carpenter named New York Attorney General Letitia James and Interim Human Rights Commissioner Jonathan Smith as defendants.

Carpenter said that the law violates her First Amendment right to freely exercise her religion because she uses her wedding photography business to exercise and express her religious beliefs about marriage.

(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: emileecarpenter; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; indiana; jonathansmith; letitiajames; newyork; perversion; pervertpower; perverts; petebuttigieg
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To: thecodont

Now the insane and depraved dominate a party in Congress.


61 posted on 01/10/2022 6:52:47 AM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: roving
Just tell the gay couple you’re booked up or going on vacation.

On the day of the wedding tell the queers you have Covid. That should shut them up.

62 posted on 01/10/2022 7:03:02 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: marshmallow

Just made the pictures look like hell.


63 posted on 01/10/2022 8:39:03 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: Skywise
But you may refuse service to photograph Trump rallies and RNC events. That is fine and good.

Political beliefs are not a protected class under anti-discrimination laws. Sexual orientation generally is.

64 posted on 01/10/2022 8:47:54 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Yes they are.

You’ve been stupidly misled to believe that some people have more rights than others.


65 posted on 01/10/2022 9:03:46 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Rurudyne
Homosexual acts should be illegal, everywhere. Should have remained illegal, everywhere. Should be again illegal.

Agreed.
66 posted on 01/10/2022 9:05:24 AM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: Skywise
Yes they are.

Under what law?

67 posted on 01/10/2022 9:10:40 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

The constitution.


68 posted on 01/10/2022 9:16:51 AM PST by Skywise
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To: NetAddicted
Yes.
69 posted on 01/10/2022 9:19:34 AM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (add a dab of lavender in milk, leave town with an orange and pretend you're laughing with it)
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To: Skywise
The constitution.

Of course.

70 posted on 01/10/2022 9:23:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

You recall slavery was legal too.

Internment camps for the Japanese? Legal.

Separate but equal facilities race clause? Legal.

Civil rights legislation will be seen as the same evil.


71 posted on 01/10/2022 9:26:09 AM PST by Skywise
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To: Rurudyne

100%


72 posted on 01/10/2022 9:31:23 AM PST by ecomcon
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To: marshmallow

The “Hot Civil War” Clock just ticked a few more clicks towards midnight. Keep it up, black-robed tyrants - you’re going to find out soon what true justice feels like.


73 posted on 01/10/2022 10:47:10 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: Rurudyne; All

Please do not use the misnomer “homosexual.” The correct term is “sodomite.” That is what they are, and that is what they do. The word “homosexual” was invented to make the pretense that acts of sodomy are in some way on par with heterosexual procreation.

Being intrinsically closed to the transmission of life, acts of sodomy are by definition not “sex.” They are the perverse acts of reprobate minds. Acts of sodomy are intrinsically disordered because they are contrary to God’s intended design and purpose of the human reproductive system. Such behavior is violently opposed to human nature.

Likewise, the absconding of the word “gay,” redefined so to replace the term “homosexual,” is just as perverse in its intention to normalize and make light of that which is purely evil in its nature.

We must stop using the enemy’s terms, and restore to our lexicon the terms that accurately describe the acts which these reprobates actually commit.

Even Sigmund Freud understood as much ...

“The common characteristic of all perversions ...”

“The common characteristic of all perversions, on the other hand, is that they have abandoned reproduction as their aim. We term sexual activity perverse when it has renounced the aim of reproduction and follows the pursuit of pleasure as an independent goal. And so, you realize that the turning point in the development of sexual life lies in its subjugation to the purpose of reproduction. Everything this side of the turning point, everything that has given up this purpose and serves the pursuit of pleasure alone, must carry the term “perverse” and as such be regarded with contempt.” – Sigmund Freud [1]

[1] A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis, 1920, preface by G. Stanley Hall, Twentieth Lecture: General Theory of the Neuroses, The Sexual Life of Man, New York, Boni and Liveright, p. 273. (reprinted 1975 by Pocket pub. ISBN 0671800329 ISBN 978-0671800321 and 2012 by Emereo Publishing, ISBN 9781486414147 (Harvard sociologist and a founder of the Rural Sociological Society Carle C. Zimmerman (1897-1983) notes the following in regard to Freud’s early thinking on human sexuality: “Nor did the atheist Sigmund Freud perceive any difficulty in detecting the intrinsic perversity of contraception and allied deviations.” see, Marriage and the Family, A Text for Moderns, (1956), Carl C. Zimmerman, Ph.D., Lucius F. Cervantes, S.J., PhD. (Harvard, Regis), Regnery, Chicago, Ill., p. 329.


74 posted on 01/10/2022 11:03:17 AM PST by JME_FAN (MOLON LABE!)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Eradicate Biblical Christianity.

Get the Laodicean “church” prophesied.

Then shall come Satan’s anti-messiah and 7 years of Tribulation.

In the middle of that 7 years:

Matthew 24:20-22
American Standard Version

20 And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on a sabbath:

21 for then shall be great tribulation, such as hath not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever shall be.

22 And except those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2024:20-22&version=ASV


75 posted on 01/10/2022 12:31:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: marshmallow

Wolves protecting their own.


76 posted on 01/10/2022 12:51:11 PM PST by fwdude (My pronouns are "F*ck, Joe, Biden." Use them when addressing me or else. )
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To: marshmallow

If she was a mad Mo follower and the pair of bum bandits wanted a pic of Mo with a bomb in his turban, she would be praised for taking a stand against islamophobic homos.


77 posted on 01/10/2022 12:56:29 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: marshmallow

I think if I were in that situation, I would subcontract the work out to someone else and let them have the entire fee, save for a small “finders fee” for the time I had to spend servicing their service (finding another photographer, baker, florist, etc). And then I would make it my business to have a list of other service providers who were comfortable with whatever I wasn’t, that I could slide the actual work to. That way I did provide the work, it was adequate, and I want forced to do something against my conscience or anyone else’s - plus I would be helping others to find work. Win/win/win!


78 posted on 01/10/2022 1:42:59 PM PST by VRWCer ( Greater is He that lives in you than he who lives in the world. 1 John 4:4)
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To: imabadboy99
These obama judges need to be impeached!

By Whom? Dream on.

79 posted on 01/10/2022 3:00:17 PM PST by itsahoot (Many Republicans are secretly Democrats, no Democrats are secretly Republicans. Dan Bongino.)
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To: marshmallow

So take lousy pictures and charge them 3 times the rate


80 posted on 01/10/2022 4:47:15 PM PST by southernindymom
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