Posted on 08/23/2013 10:00:45 AM PDT by ReligiousLibertyTV
Many businesses have “We reserve the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason.”
I’d tell them that only real photogs still use film to ‘capture the moment’, shoot the whole gig then accidentally expose the film in a unfortunate dark room accident..............
that would work!!
if forced conduct requires actions that violate their beliefs - ie being at a faux gay wedding, having to go through that garbage - the court is stomping over those persons beliefs and forcing them to do things against their beliefs.
I think all businesses need to have large statements on windows and doors and contracts that they reserve the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason.
So the court has sentenced the Christians to be slaves to the homos?
That Supreme Court needs to be impeached based on this decision alone.
Freedom of association. It’s a social event. She could just take really bad pictures, but that would end up in a lawsuit.
She could explain that the quality of her work depends greatly on how it is inspired and, well, what do you expect...
I really feel for Elaine. This has got to be devastating. I’d sell my equipment and do something else. About the only thing she can do is “with everything you do, do it as if you were doing it for the Lord”. In this case, it would mean doing a VERY bad job.
That Supreme Court needs to be impeached...
...for starters...
1. Take the pictures.
2. Charge $6,666.00 for the work as a standard fee.
3. Establish a suitable rebate for heterosexual couples.
if forced conduct requires actions that violate their beliefs - ie being at a faux gay wedding, having to go through that garbage - the court is stomping over those persons beliefs and forcing them to do things against their beliefs.
I wonder what law school New Mexico’s judges got indoctrinated at?
Simply put, not only have the states amended the Constitution to expressly protect freedom of religious expression as evidenced by the 1st Amendment to the Constitution which New Mexico judges are wrongly ignoring, but the states have never amended the Constitution to protect so-called gay rights.
So New Mexico’s is actually in violation of Section 1 of the 14th Amendment which prohibits the states from making laws, like this pro-gay law, which abridge constitutionally enumerated freedoms like religious expression.
"A Constitution is not intended to embody a particular economic theory, whether of paternalism and the organic relation of the citizen to the state or of laissez faire. It is made for people of fundamentally different views, and the accident of our finding certain opinions natural and familiar, or novel, and even shocking, ought not to conclude our judgement upon the question whether statutes embodying them conflict with the Constitution of the United States." [198 U.S. 75-6 (1905).
In short, the photographer had every right to not take on the job.
Christians are officially a lower caste than others
I’d close my business then open it again later. The court is saying that this photographer is the only one in that town? The gay couple was just looking for incitement.
New Mexico State Supreme Court. Next stop will be the US Supreme Court.
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