Lawyers for a privately owned Christian business who are appealing a fine assessed by the People’s Republic of New York for not allowing their private residence to be used for a lesbian wedding ceremony make it crystal clear what the issue is and what is at stake.
“The commission demonstrated stunning disregard for the Giffords’ First Amendment rights, which were never considered at the hearing,” James Trainor, an allied attorney with Alliance Defending Freedom, said in a statement. “The commissioner’s order in essence gives an ultimatum: host same-sex marriage ceremonies or none at all.”
So, on the one side… Constitutional Rights to Free Speech and the Free Exercise of Religion; the basic human rights our country was founded upon.
On the other side, the hurt feelings of special lesbian snowflakes.
“No one should have the happiest time of their life marred by discrimination,” McCarthy, who was represented alongside her wife by the New York Civil Liberties Union, said in a statement, according to the New York Law Journal. “We hope this decision will protect all New Yorkers from having to go through the hurt that we experienced.”
To the left, the hurt feelings of special snowflakes trump everyone else’s Constitutional Rights.
a counter-suit for discrimination against the owners is needed here. The snowflakes, the state and anyone else who is pushing this along should be named,
In the end, the victim becomes the tyrant.
“No one should have the happiest time of their life marred by discrimination.”
Oh, come off it! You TARGETTED them, and you KNOW it!! You did it deliberately as an In-Your-Face move. No business should have to put up with that.
Once you accept that the State has the right to force you to serve anyone it wants you to –what we piously call “anti-discrimination legislation”– this kind of stuff is inevitable. I predict that one day, having told us we cannot, for instance, refuse to sell our home to people based on race, that we will in fact be REQUIRED to sell our homes to certain people based on race. Sound crazy? Then imagine how it would have sounded 20 years ago to predict that bakeries and hotels would be fined or closed for refusing to support same-sex marriage. This stuff will never end.
I disagree. Inevitably, this stuff will have to end because the system of which it is a part is simply not socially or economically sustainable.
The knowledge that the system cannot survive but heartens and terrifies me.
So the Christian business gets to pay for the suit and the counter suit and is expected to come out of this unscathed?
The lesbians want to protect “New Yorkers from having to go through the hurt” ….. why don’t they just firebomb the place and shoot the dog?
Is it part of being lesbian that you force yourself on people who do not want you around? Or, perhaps, the agenda is worth destroying any semblance of dignity that may infect your indignant being.
OK. Lets try this. A band of macho rednecks walk into a gay bar and start talking trash about gays. You play it out.
Heliotrope, what is going to happen is very simple.
Obama and the Obama Party have made it clear that the rule of law no longer applies in this country.
If the rule of law no longer applies, then people either let lesbians with emotional problems destroy and rule their lives or they punch back twice as hard.
There will always be a substantial minority that cave, just like there are parents who cave and let their children run the house.
But there will be a LOT of people who punch back twice as hard. And then when the lesbians go screaming to the courts, the lesbians will get punched even harder, because people no longer have the rule of law and an expectation of the law’s fairness to restrain themselves. You either fight or you lose everything, and people will choose to fight.
Explain to me why the word “Gay” is in the title of this web site? If you all are so anti-gay and willing to “sleep with the enemy” at any cost, why bother put the word “Gay” in your title? Just call yourselves the “Straight Patriots” or “Uncle Tom United”. Those are the only two options for you as far as I can tell..
geo jackson,
Please flesh out your “sleeping with the enemy” charge. Also, please reveal the “gay agenda” by which you judge other gays as “uncle Toms.”
From my perspective, you have every civil right accorded to any other person and you are protected equally by the Constitution.
If a straight couple wanted a baker to make a wedding cake with a huge vagina being penetrated by a huge penis as doves fly out, would you permit the baker to refuse the order? If so, on what principle?
I know you won’t take the time to respond, so I will just wish we had met in person so that I could tell you the wonderful effect Pepcid AC has on controlling bile overload.
Thanks “geo jackson”.
You’ve assured that this thread won’t be polluted by Cut-N-Paste rusty, the screaming piety dance demander who vanishes whenever you leftists show your true hate and bigotry, lest he be required to actually condemn their behavior.
And as for you, we all know it’s the fact that you’re terrified of your white massas whipping and beating you if you dare go off the plantation. They really do love you; they just need to control your every thought and action and tell you how people should think based on skin color/gender/orientation because you agree with them that you’re far too stupid to do it yourself.