Posted on 05/03/2009 1:58:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
"Once," not "if." These little habits of Progressive presumption can't be left uncorrected.
That said, it's foolish to think that religious exemptions and conscience protections will be worth anything if the public or the legal elite decides dissenters are the same as racists and need to be suppressed.
a "religious organization" providing adoption services may continue to place children only with heterosexual married couples as long as it gets no government money.
So pro-gay religious groups have an advantage over those who aren't. That's still pretty bad.
We probably have something worse than that in Mass. I can understand this in terms of supplying essential services, but wedding photography?
The photo business is so reference driven that taking bad photos isn't really an option - though it's the first thing I thought of too. Given the importance of the day, would you really want to force someone to do that job for you? I mean why risk it?
You and the other person are probably right about them being selected as an example. Still I might be so traumatized that I wouldn't be able to work for a while and have to sue someone to recover that lost income.
That’s what I’m learning. Fortunately I shoot sports where we don’t have these kinds of issues.
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Yes, and they will have to. Not to offer a gay Ken Doll would be “hate speech”.
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