Posted on 08/23/2013 6:48:09 AM PDT by markomalley
Yep. Simply ignore them. Refuse. Put all the business’ assets under an LLC and lease them to yourself. Then you have nothing the leeches can take in a civil action.
But stand your ground. God’s law trumps Man’s.
Very good point. The First Amendment protects the free EXERCISE of one’s religion, which includes the practice of that religion’s values and teachings in one’s everyday life.
Not since the civil rights laws were passed in the sixties.
easy to say. I don’t see conservatives funding monies for these people.
In some establishments I can be refused service for not wearing shoes.
Exactly...time to turn the tables and use the same tactics on these folks. Never let an opportunity/crisis go to waste.
They want us to think that free exercise means you can go into your building and do your thing: clap and stomp, liturgize, sing and shout, kneel and genuflect, or whatever is YOUR way of doing “Worship”.
That is just one piece of free exercise.
“Free Exercise” means getting to LIVE your religion.
I wish this photographer had been Amish or Hasidic Jew or something like that: can you imagine the courts disagreeing with the Hasidics about what does and does not constitute part of their religion?
I’d either shut down my business, or I’d go photograph the wedding by taking blurry pictures of their feet and nothing else.
Sadly, the Christian community is being hoisted on the petard that many of them celebrated. Those that helped eliminate private property rights and the right of free association via smoking bans on private property, they laid a foundation that will be used against them by the homosexual community.
First they came for the smokers and many celebrated. Now these folks are reaping their just rewards. A few FReepers celebrate daily....
Privately owned businesses are no longer free to cater to whomever they decide is their target market, nor are they free to decline business to those that carry political favor.
When it comes to law there is no difference. The country tried to legislate morality in the 60’s and this is the unintended consequence.
Good people allowed the creation of a bad law for what they thought were good reasons. Now you have to realize that the government does not consider homosexuality to be abnormal or immoral, thus they get the same privelidges that blacks were granted by the poorly concieved civil rights laws.
“I was thinking that if this case goes to the USSC, then this ruling will be overturned. But then I remembered John Roberts.”
And Kilo.
He is a fag. Photo says it all.
Roger that.
The ones that I think are funny are the people (gays) who force companies to cater / provide cakes for their weddings.
"Here's your cake. Keep in mind that I didn't particularly care for you to begin with, then you forced me to incur substantial legal bills, then tried to drive my family out of the business we've held for the past 20 years, for no other reason than 'you could'. As a result of your actions, my family and I have suffered constant insults and physical threats from hundreds of people just like you.
So......Bon Appetit!"
Man, I'd not want to be within 100 yards of anything provided in a situation like that.
“I thought involuntary servitude is not allowed in the US.”
That is abolished with Obamacare. If I am forced to purchase a product (health insurnce) from a private company, then someone MUST be forced to sell that product to me!
It was deemed “constitutional” to enslave others.
Photography, like cakemaking, is a service industry. The state can compel service but not good service.
I wouldn’t trust my photographs to someone compelled to take them and I damned sure wouldn’t trust food to compelled service.
These cases are about making a political point for sure. That said, it’s a hollow victory unless the winner is plain stupid on top of their other problems.
I would tell them that of course I have to serve them, but if I were to vomit at their ceremony, that could cause a problem for them. Of course it is their choice. :)
I think it’s repugnant but my opinion is irrelevant. We delegated the right to decide what’s right and wrong to the Federal Government.
“I have no idea as to why your eyes are so read or where those horns on top of your head came from. I might suggest that you hire another photographer the next time you two boys get married”.
LLS
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