"Vermont Inn, 2 Lesbians settle gay marriage case"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2922119/posts
If anything is to be learned, its that voting on LGBT rights, discrimination laws, and gay marriage has to be taken very seriously, because once on the books there is no further recourse.
We need to overturn the civil rights act and allow people to run their private businesses as they wish.
If a business doesn’t want to serve straight white Christians, so be it. I’ll find one that does.
Back in the 1950s, some lunch counter owners said that they did not want to serve Negroes. "It's my business, and I can serve who I want." Society made the decision then that collective rights of some privileged classes were more important than property rights of individual business owners. It was a mistake.
It's a dumb business decision to say "I don't serve your kind" but in a society which values property, it is an essential right to say exactly that.
Interesting that they are now called “Public Businesses”. I suppose “Private Enterprise” is also an antiquated notion in the era of “You didn’t build that”.
I wish I could exclaim “Unbelievable!” alas, that day is long past.
The next step? Force a church to perform a gay wedding.
key words: “in Vermont”
He doesn’t have the integrity to include the fact that the inn will refrain from this”discriminatory policy” by not hosting any wedding receptions, whether homosexual or heterosexual. Thus a vast majority’s rights to a chosen venue are abrogated. I suppose the same thing will happen when motel swimming pools begin to close down because of inability to afford the chair lift dictated by ADA fiats.
Another abuse of the courts......If my business is my property, I accept who I wish.
A “Human Rights Commission” is something that does not belong in America; ideas like that should have died with the Soviet Union.
I’ve been turned away from drinking establishments because I wasn’t wearing a collar. This is insane.
The civil rights movement has actually stripped away the important freedoms of association and assembly. People should have the ability to associate and do business with whomever they wish, and if that means “No Gays” or “Black Only” so be it.
Welcome to the USSA, comrades. You will obey the PC commissars, or else!
Instead of simply choosing one of the inns oriented towards adults, the complaining lesbians chose an inn whose owners and atmosphere are inconsistent with their plans. Apparently they never considered, for example, that other inns turn away families with children, or that inns exist which would not welcome a religious group, or a group of bikers, or other groups that would be inconsistent with how the inn wanted to maintain its atmosphere.
A group of religious people with their children should call up one of the "gay friendly" inns in Vermont and try to book the entire inn for a weekend retreat. I'd like to see if the ACLU, etc. wants to take up that lawsuit.
I've never seen the government of Vermont enforce anti-discrimination laws against inns where the discrimination is against families or children. Somehow I doubt they are about to start.
As others have noted inn owners should be able to choose which customers to do business with, particularly when it comes to groups, since the atmosphere of the inn, which is what the innkeeper is really selling, depends on the mix of visitors present.
If businesses have no license to discriminate then government has even less.
Next step: no more PRIVATE PROPERTY at all.
Welcome to Obama's AmeriKa.
Notice what one of the lesbians’ mother said about her encounter with the Wildflower Inn, and how she does not see the irony of still pressing a suit and making an example of them, even though it was easy as pie to find another inn:
“Fortunately, I soon found a perfectly beautiful venue for their reception, a place that welcomes my daughter and her fiancée. And fortunately, I also learned that the Wildflower Inn is in the distinct minority in its discriminatory policy. But that doesn’t excuse the Wildflower Inn’s discrimination or make their conduct any less hurtful and humiliating. I hope that by filing their lawsuit Ming and Kate will be able to make sure that other couples will be treated equally by public businesses regardless of their race, gender, religion, or sexual orientation.”
http://www.aclu.org/blog/lgbt-rights/my-daughter-isnt-good-enough-think-again-wildflower-inn
Coming soon to a church near you...
How about PRIVATE BUSINESS instead of PUBLIC business?
Is there not a single social-conservative billionaire willing to put up megabucks to defeat the ACLU in these cases? If not, they will continue to bully small businesses across the land, using the disgraceful legal system with which we are infected: legal costs unaffordable, and loser never pays.
In totally unrelated news, many couples looking for a venue for their weddings are finding the selection sparse.
Kate and Ming wished to hold their wedding ceremony at a Buddhist retreat in Vermont and have their reception at a nearby inn.
Oh, so Kate and Ming get to be selective based on their religious beliefs -- they chose a Buddhist retreat -- but the Christian inn owners have no such right.