Donald and Evelyn Knapp, both ordained ministers, have refused to marry a same sex couple in their chapel, The Hitching Post.
Now they face a $1000 fine for each day they decline hold the wedding and up to 180 days in jail.
City officials from Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, states that the city has a non-discrimination statute that includes sexual orientation and gender identity, and because same-sex marriage became legal in Idaho on Oct. 15, 2014, the couple would have to conduct these weddings in their chapel.
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This is a for profit marriage parlor. Like a restaurant or clothing store they cannot discriminate against people protected by law. FYI there is no such federal law protecting GLBT people from discrimination. Only a handful of states and cities have these protections as a law.
I am gay snd I agree. We are building such resentment I am concerned what may happen to us when the country wises up about liberal hogwash and swings back to the Right.
i wouldn,t either
Governments are about POWER. Don’t DARE think for yourself.
Exactly. It’s like people are no longer tolerant of ignorance. There’s places I don’t shop because they act snobby but I don’t go seeking a lawsuit over hurt feelings. If it were me I would want someone to send me and my spouse off with sincere good wishes instead of secretly hating because they are forced to do something they firmly believe to be wrong. We need to quit being so sensitive and say ignorance exists and just shake it off and move on. Forcing them by law is not going to change people’s ignorance it only forces them to hide it…which to me is worse.
Please stick to your guns. We have to get this stopped.
Government interfering with the church, thats unconstitutional.
Illegals only take jobs nobody wants to take and they bring the economy up, so they are more than welcome here
I thought they were released from all that as ruled finally by a judge.
Thought we still lived in a country where we could make religious choices. My question is why would a guy couple want someone to marry them if they don’t want to. Ministers have always had the choice of not performing a marriage of any kind of couple.,