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:
PROGRESSIVE FASCISM
I won’t say any more about it because I’m all ready in tears just thinking about that story I have on tape
What a shame America has fallen so low.
That is just wrong.
No, the Supreme Court did not “force” the baker out of business, rather the baker while in business and selling goods to the public could not “discriminate” against people. That is the law. Discrimination is now allowed. If you want to discriminate, or do things only by your own strict religious belief, then you probably should not be in business selling to the public. Sorry, but that is only common sense in addition to being the law.
Wrong
THIS IS WRONG. !!!!
Heck with the court
WRONG, WRONG, WRONG I’m sure there were a number of shops that would have made this
cake, these people were out there to test and make trouble if it didn’t go their way. A restaurant
can refuse service to patron, why is this different?
What about Bruce Springsteen refusing to do his concerts based on bathroom privileges isn’t that the same thing?