Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSPosted on 08/13/2014 4:14:43 PM PDT by NYer
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The owner of a bridal shop in Pennsylvania has been forced to close her doors after a lesbian couple launched a social-media bullying campaign in retaliation for the owner’s refusal to service their same-sex wedding.
Breitbart is reporting that Victoria Miller, owner of the W.W. Bridal Boutique in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, said she has had to shutter her bridal shop after a pair of “unidentified” lesbians began attacking her for refusing to sell them wedding gowns.
“We feel we have to answer to God for what we do,” Miller said, according to the New York Daily News. “And providing those two girls dresses for a sanctified marriage would break God’s law.”
The two lesbians then turned to Facebook to launch a campaign of hate against Miller which resulted in having her shop downgraded to one-star reviews and eventually to shuttering it completely. Her shop’s website has gone dark and the status of her shop is listed on Facebook as being “permanently closed.”
In addition, the Bloomsburg Town Council met last night to discuss the incident and decide whether or not to propose a new law that will ban businesses from refusing to serve LGBT customers. If they do so, it will give the lesbian couple grounds upon which to sue Miller.
As a result, Miller has hired an attorney to defend her in the event a lawsuit is filed.
“Obviously, W.W. Bridal Boutique isn’t the only wedding dress shop in town,” writes Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council.
“These women could have easily taken their business elsewhere — but chose to retaliate instead. That’s because, at its core, this isn’t about accommodation. It’s about forced acceptance. When religious liberty clashes with homosexuality — as it has from bakeries to flower shops — the story lines are all the same: conform or be punished.”
Perkins goes on to cite the misuse of Scripture being used by proponents of same-sex marriage who wrote on Miller’s Facebook page that “We are taught to love our neighbor regardless.”
“Unfortunately, culturally intoxicated believers like this one have a misguided (and convenient) view of Christ’s calling,” Perkins writes. “Real love doesn’t mean you facilitate people’s desires that are both harmful to them and society. It means speaking the truth in love.”
Even though a recent National Health Interview Survey found that a mere 1.6 percent of respondents in a large survey reported being gay or lesbian, this tiny minority has been far too successful in re-writing American law to suit their beliefs – while trampling upon everyone else’s.
Another one bites the dust, ping!
“Tolerance” on display. This is about hatred and conformity, weather you like it or not. Just read the account in Genesis, nothing has changed.
Because some people in government are now hostile to marriage as God defined it, in order to protect godly marriage we must remove the power of the State to define and regulate marriage. Then anyone will be perfectly free to enter into whatever relationship they want. However, they will not be able to call upon the police power of the state to force me to recognize a “marriage” that I know is theologically illegitimate and morally repugnant.
If we remove government from marriage and return it to the private sphere where it came from, lesbians can still marry each other, but they won’t be able to use government to force me to sell them wedding cake or artfully photograph their “marriage”. They will be free to do as they please without being able to coerce anyone else about their private affair.
But this was never really about marriage. For homosexuals it was social engineering and payback. They could bust marriage as God defined it, they could rub Christianity’s nose in it, they could punish people who objected and they could force anyone who was too vocal to shut up. But what they really want is approval, and it just galls them that a lot of people will never give it to them.
“Conform or be punished.”
The American ISIS. Given enough time, it will become “convert or die.”
I don’t know how to end this.....can a business be by appt only?....can it select what groups it will serve?....such as “Conservative Jews” or “traditional Catholics” only?
The “loving” couple will be divorced less than a year after they “marry”.
“In addition, the Bloomsburg Town Council met last night to discuss the incident and decide whether or not to propose a new law that will ban businesses from refusing to serve LGBT customers. If they do so, it will give the lesbian couple grounds upon which to sue Miller.”
Ex Post Facto. On some other grounds perhaps, but not on a law or regulation passed after the incident.
The peaceful left and their friends the lesbians. If this was a white hetrosexual group they would be all under investigation for hate crimes.
Liberal thugs will have us all in a concentration camp before you know it.
That seems to be the general trend.
My nail guy lost his "husband" (California allows same-sex "marriage.") a few months ago. They had been a couple for almost four decades and "married" when California changed its laws about same sex "marriage."
They were an anomaly.
You are correct about homosexual relationships, I think.
Remember when they wanted to be left alone in their bedrooms?
The people of PA though support the lesbians in this.
It is the Mark of the Beast apparently
I have read story after story about homosexuals who had been “together” for decades. Then this “marriage” thing came out and they jumped right on it. Some of them were divorced in six months or less. Some could not even get a divorce because they had moved to a state that did not have gay marriage to start with.
What do you expect on a relationship built on lust?
Alone in their bedrooms? Don’t you at the turnpike rest stop?
I am not sure as to why a group of people who find their greatest sexual desires fulfilled with anonymous sodomy at road side rest areas would care about marriage, at least not to their fellow sodomite.
Yep.
Queers: "We are the 2.3%". 07/15/2014 192kb.pdf
1.6% or 2.3%, it's still a tiny, tiny percentage.
Even more sinister in this case is that the Lesbians did not even have to go to the government to have the bridal shop owners prosecuted, but instead resorted to social media and caused the bridal shop to lose business due to a stealth boycott.
**As a result, Miller has hired an attorney to defend her in the event a lawsuit is filed.**
She needs to go to Thomas More Law Center
What happened to freedom of religion?
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