Posted on 11/20/2014 8:56:38 AM PST by SeekAndFind
RE: I still don’t understand how photographers, bakers and other private businesses can be forced to participate in events against their will
It all started with Civil rights laws.
The reasoning goes like this — It is not lawful to deny a service to people because of the color of their skin.... therefore, it is now extended to — “It is not lawful to deny service to people because of their sexual orientation.”
Once you equate skin color to sexual orientation, all bets are off.
About 15 years ago, they had a same sex marriage proposal on the CA ballot. A ‘gay friendly’ co worker asked me my opinion. I stated that I didn’t really care if two gays got married, and it certainly wasn’t a threat, to my marriage. I went on to explain, that I would be voting against it, because it would only be a matter of time, before refusing to have anything to do with a gay wedding, would become a hate crime.
She kind of scratched her head, and had to admit, I was probably correct. Sometimes, it stinks, being right.
RE: She kind of scratched her head, and had to admit, I was probably correct.
So, 15 years have passed, what does she say now?
How long before straight couples can’t find anybody to shoot their weddings because, “Sorry, we’ve stopped doing weddings because of the gays”?
Haven’t seen her since 2010, but it might be worth looking her up, and ask ;)
Simple: We do weddings for friends and family only and we don’t charge for them. If they choose to tip us our usual fee, well, that’s their business. Oh, and we have LOT’s of friends, many of whom we haven’t met yet.
RE: Oh, and we have LOT’s of friends, many of whom we haven’t met yet.
Gay couple response: “Can you be our friend?”
All of these businesses need to start advertising their services for free, but would accept donations. I wonder if they could be forced to do business with gays then?
Thing is, though, people shouldn't have to lie. And if they're refusing based on being Christians, then lying is against their religion just as much as participating in a gay wedding is against it. It would also be against their religion to purposely do a bad job by taking lousy pictures. So the Christians are really stuck here, and have no choice but to stop doing weddings altogether.
We need to bring back the right for private businesses to refuse service to anyone, for any reason. Anything less than that, and we're not free.
Only a matter of time....that voting against something will be a crime.
Can the KKK force a black photographer to shoot their rallies?
Good point !
Unspoken er...um “portraits...in wedding clothes”
Ask loudly and often "which one of you is the bride?"
I’d stay away from the issue with her. It’s reached a point where one has to be extremely judicious in how they address this topic - you can quickly become vilified in so many ways. My personal approach is to realize that we are in a zero-sum game and have to take stand - we just need to be effective in those moments.
"Alrighty then, here are your costumes."
Vile perverts destroy more people’s livelihoods .
No problem. It's a dying industry. Everyone with a phone can take a selfie with the happy couple and others can get the whole thing on .mp4.
Good idea - thanks.
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