NY Farm That Refused To Host Lesbian Wedding Fined $13,000
Liberty Ridge Farm's owners, citing constitutional rights to free speech and religious freedom, have appealed the August ruling by the Division of Human Rights that they violated state anti-discrimination law.
Their attorney said Robert and Cynthia Gifford paid the $10,000 state civil penalty and $1,500 each to Melisa and Jennie McCarthy, whose 2013 wedding they declined to host. The Giffords testified last year that in their Christian beliefs, marriage is between a man and a woman, and the ceremonies are held at their home, a private space where their own rights should be determinate.
Good!
We hurt them in the pocketbook and we shame them in the media.
There is a dark and twisted version of Christianity being practiced in the U.S. They throw love and tolerance over for fear and ignorance, clinging to one archaic hebrew tribal law.
That is pure bullshit, and you have no right to single
anyone out to be shamed
or sued because of their beliefs. There is nothing dark or twisted or new about Christian beliefs on homosexuality, any more than the Amish's new view on electricity. What
is new is you demanding we capitulate to your beliefs at the expense of our own, or else....
And who are you to decide what we can or can't believe/practice? Since when does your sexual proclivity override someone else's rights, beliefs or business code of ethics?
Where the hell is separation of church and state now? Why is the government seizing sermons and insisting private citizens do what they are told even though it is in direct opposition to their religious beliefs? There is no separation. It's a beneficial catch phrase for a minority to dictate what we are to accept, or be vilified for, if we don't. You are the new, dark, twisted version of political correctness that is trying to walk all over personal beliefs.
You scream there is a lack of tolerance by Christians, in a thread you started about the financial success of being intolerant toward someone's religious beliefs! It cost those people 13,000 dollars to remain true to their beliefs instead of caving to yours. And that is bullshit.
"Hello, do you perform gay weddings"? "No". "Ok, thank you".
"Hello, do you perform gay weddings"? "Yes". "Great, can we make an appointment"?
There ya go........