Posted on 10/12/2014 11:02:27 AM PDT by B4Ranch
We own a photography studio and we don’t do weddings, period. Weddings are the job from h—l, I don’t care who it is getting married. So we should not have the sodomite problem. We will photograph their dogs etc.
This is a mushy work-around that does nothing to combat the evil of forcing individuals to violate their conscience. It is preferable that the courts be overwhelmed with cases where Christians refuse to participate in a sinful ceremony. The courts should be made to understand that forcing individuals to violate their conscience is an evil that free societies must resist.
Sounds good to me
Here might be a better idea.
Legally, churches cannot (yet) be compelled to marry those who are not compliant with their religious doctrines.
So what a small business owner can do is make exclusive contracts with a group of conservative churches, to only make wedding cakes, for example, for couples who are being married in those churches.
Importantly, the exclusivity is only one-way, in that the couples and churches are not obligated to get their cakes from that baker. But the baker is “obligated” to only make wedding cakes for marriages in those churches.
To be legal, the contract must include “consideration”, which is an exchange of value. In this case, the baker offers a small discount on wedding cakes, and the church provides “advertising” of the baker as a good place, but not obligatory, to get a wedding cake, for couples who are getting married.
This avoids the pitfall of providing a product or service to “the public”. It is a private contract.
The baker cannot be accused of discrimination for not making wedding cakes for anyone else, be it a homosexual couple, or a heterosexual couple who are having a secular wedding.
It is the churches that are “discriminating”, but with legal discrimination, for refusing to sanction an illegitimate coupling.
So when the irate LGBT & whatevers enter the bakery hoping to sue them for refusing to make a wedding cake, the baker can shrug and say they do not make wedding cakes for “the public”, but only via an existing contract for cakes with churches.
Then they can even suggest that they get married in one of these churches. Of course, after they leave, he can call that church to give them a heads up to a couple of LGBTs want to get married there, so may try and pretend they are not LGBTs.
In any event, every Christian business associated with weddings can make a contract of this sort with say eight or ten churches, they would still get their normal amount of business, but would not have to fret over lawsuits by deviants.
Here's a solution - resistance!!! Refuse. If courts rule against you, ignore them. If they bring force against you, their blood is on their own heads. Be sure that if this issue did come to blows, it would launch the long-overdue revolution. You'd be surprised at the number of patriots who would emerge from the woodwork on your side. We haven't been buying up ammo for several years just for target practice.
Pussy-footing around the issue with legal scapegoating only prolongs our captivity.
I didn’t see anybody rushing to defend the Colorado bakery owners.
That battle didn’t come to blows, now did it?
Masterpiece Cakes tacitly bowed to their punishment. Now, they will not make wedding cakes, unarguably the bread and butter of most cake bakeries. They are cowards in a sense. They will pay by going out of business now.
Everyone is forgetting the easiest way to get rid of the LGBWT creeps and pervs - bid high!
If the going rate for a cake is $500, then bid $1,000.
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