Besieged Christian businesses have been battling against gay and lesbian couples who demand that they ignore their deeply held religious convictions and use their artistic talents to make wedding cakes, take photographs, and provide flower arrangements to celebrate and consecrate gay nuptials, thereby violating their ethics and morals beliefs.
Since the idea of same-sex marriage has only recently been sanctioned by the law, overturning thousands of years of tradition that marriage is meant to be between a man and a woman, it is curious that these couples and the government would be surprised and litigious regarding the reaction from these religious devouts.
The usual defense by business owners has been that such demands by gays and lesbians and the government co-conspirators is a violation of free speech, since participating and supporting the couples implies both acceptance and approval, which is simply coerced. The 1st Amendment would seem to be enough to quash these forced expressions, but the combination of a very powerful gay lobby and supporters such as the American Civil Liberties Union, along with unelected and out of control government agencies such as civil rights commissions and activist judges has completely overwhelmed small, religious business people, bankrupting them or driving them out of business for the crime of having and conforming to a strongly held belief and ethic.
The state has fined some of these individuals hundreds of thousands of dollars, and the gay couples have added insult to injury by suing the Christian business people as well for the injury of not concurring with their sexual beliefs and mores. And there is another agenda beyond just getting a beautiful wedding cake or bouquet of flowers to celebrate the nuptials of Fred and Ted.
See page 2 for theory on why Christians must be punished:
I don’t care how you slice it that’s just wrong !!!
So wrong. Tolerance should be a two way thing.
Those people had their rights trampled on. This was done on purpose.. Those gays i am sure could have found a gay baker to make a cake.. or someone that would have done it.. i see signs in stores stating they have right to refuse service.. Does this now mean we can sue if they require a shirt or shoes? This is overboard..
Sue the federal government for breaking the Constitution
It sounds like it’s time to put the Co. Supreme Court on trial by the people of that state! Those judges should be sterilized & imprisoned!
Oh pleas really?
THIS IS B******T PEOPLE. TIME TO GROW THE HELL UP !
If you put a sign up saying you are a “private” business, why would you have to serve anyone you do not want?
Or a Priest buying a cake in celebration of his first Mass?
Then you can do the same for the Muslim baker for the same thing