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:
Sick! They own the business–
Instead of telling the gays that you refuse based in your religious beliefs, just tell them your booked for the year.
So stupid !
That is why you reserve the right to serve anyone !
Or not !
I wouldn’t want to ever eat anything anyone didn’t want to make ! Your asking for what ever you get for being an$#%&!@*!
If it’s your wedding u don’t want any or need any more stress ! Looking for a lawsuit, that’s All you Assholes are doing !
The law is letting you get away with it !
He was too stupid to run a business anyway.serving the customer is how you make money,not by refusing to sell your product.if you want to judge people be God.otherwise myob and stfu.
Soooo wrong… We have to fight!!
no this needs to go to hell g/l fags and other group of people should ave no more rights than any other american group @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@22
Then they must also do the same when a muslim baker refuses to serve gays and lesbians and/or christians.
The government needs to keep tier nose out of our business.we have the right to refuse to who ever we want works in bars why not bakeries
Bake the fuvkin cake and make sure they don’t like it-
This administration has got to get the hell out because all of this BS like this will continue as long as Obama is still in the White House!