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A judge ruled that the GIfford private residence isn't so private after all.
Washington Times:
New York farm owners who rent their facilities for birthday parties and wedding ceremonies have been fined thousands of dollars for refusing to host a lesbian wedding.
Cynthia and Robert Gifford were fined $10,000 and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the lesbian couple after they refused to hold the wedding at their Liberty Ridge Farm near Albany, Religion News Service reported.
When Jennifer McCarthy and Melisa Erwin asked the Giffords to use the facility for a 2012 wedding, Mrs. Gifford, a Christian, said she could only host their reception on the farm, but not the wedding. Weddings typically are conducted on the first floor of the Giffords’ home, and Mrs. Giffordargued the lesbian wedding would “literally hit too close to home,” RNS reported.
New York City Administrative Law Judge Migdalia Pares ruled that the Giffords’ farm, which is also their home, is a place of public accommodation and is therefore subject to New York’s anti-discrimination laws, RNS reported.“The fact that the Giffords also reside at Gifford Barn,” the decision says, “does not render it private.”
The couple must now pay $13,000 in fines and restitution. The Giffords’ lawyer, James Trainor, said they are considering whether to appeal or pursue further legal action, RNS reported.
This is outrageous. Just because there's an occasional weddiing ceremony performed in their house doesn't make it "public." This blurring of public/private lines by the judge is an insidious attack on privacy and personal liberty.
It's probably expensive, but the Giffords should keep fighting this ruling until the courts overrule this miscarraige of justice.
Wow. You are actually that ignorant of the history of the Soviet Union? Really?Eerily reminiscent of the heavy handed authoritarianism you'd see in the old Soviet Union.
Wow. You are actually that ignorant of the history of the Soviet Union? Really?
So much for gays not invading private homes.
So what? It's against the law in NY to discriminate against someone for their sexual orientation.
When you rent out your living room for wedding receptions and parties, your living room is no longer a "private home". The selling of that space makes it closer to a restaurant, inn, or meeting hall.
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It was unquestionable that the premises normally rented out for receptions was rented to this lesbian couple. The couple wanted to invade the private home to have the wedding in their living room. Occasionally the family home has been used for weddings. This should not make it a public space any more than my giving dinner parties makes my dining room a restaurant.
Giving a dinner party in your living room doesn't make it a place of Public Accommodation.
Operating a business out of your living room, kitchen, and dinning room by advertizing and using it as part of your business does make it more akin to a restaurant. If they don't want to rent their living spaces, they are under no obligation to do so. However IF THEY CHOOSE to do so, then it fell under New Yorks Public Accommodation law since they were using it for business purposes.
Don't want it to fall under the law? Not a problem, don't make it part of the business.
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Sieg Heil, Mein Herr.
So acquiesce or go out of business. I can hear the Horst Wessel playing in your ears.....
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