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:
Quite a price to pay…freedoms are being eliminated in this country by the liberal haters…now backed up by the lala land which was once colorado….of course the lib colorado court would inflict such punishment under the guise of being the PC police.
This is pretty old stuff.
Takes two sides to agree to a purchase or sale, bake your own damn cake and leave the business alone! MYOB!
IT IS TIME FOR THE CHRISTIAN BODY OF CHRIST, DESPITE WHATEVER DENOMINATION YOU ARE, TO RISE UP AND STOP HAVING OUR RIGHTS TRAMPLED ON BY THE .03 % OF THE POPULATION OF THE RAINBOW CREW AND THE LESS THAN 1% OF SO CALLED ATHEISTS!
THIS IS WHERE “PC” HAS BROUGHT US DOWN TO!
Vote democrats out of office
More c**p thanks to Oasswipe and his agenda.
CO is so anti Christian..!!
The Muslim bakeries which refuse to bake for homosexual couples ,even when the homosexuals are forced out of the bakeries are left unscathed by the homosexual activist! Where is the far left ACLU ,see the oppression of the progressive,Democrat,Socialist is limited to the persecution of Christians,an easy target! The Hateful Democrat supported LGBTT are oppressive Hyprocrits,and$#%&!@*like nasty spoilers of Liberty !
Go ahead and make it p**s in it