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.
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If you go somewhere and someone doesn’t want to bake you a cake why is it a big deal? Look at it this way, their loss of profit. Just go find another bakery.
Someone needs to sue a Muslim baker for not baking a gay cake
This a shame they have the right to not bake for whoever they this c**p has gone to damn far
Lol..stupid folks
You will have your reward in Heaven.
lol…good luck with that
Your religion is NOT an excuse to break the law and it NEVER should be. BTW, Real Christians who follow Jesus Christ don’t judge others.
So Linda, this gay couple couldn’t find another bakery? Real Christians who follow Jesus shouldn’t have to break their convictions and faith because two people tried to force them to do something they consider sinful. Jesus said, Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin. You are very narrow minded and are probably laughing that these Christians lost their business. Shame on you.
Discrimination is a hate crime and cause,s many out here to kill or harm them self’s and when they kill them self’s or harm them self do to you hate and discrimation remember you get charged with it and go to prison then inmates get to rape you
I live in California and not all of us agree with this mess. I am a Christian and it breaks my heart how we are being trampled on.