Posted on 10/21/2006 2:30:15 PM PDT by GOP_Thug_Mom
oops--think I was supposed to put "Rick Casey" as the author. How can we correct that?
I can understand why a Christian printer would refuse to print pro-homosexual literature, or a caterer would refuse to cater a union of butt buddies. Heck, I would never design an explicitly pro-sodomite web site. But landscaping? I don't get it.
If a homosexual couple asked me to design a website to sell office supplies, or televisions, or to promote a flower shop or something, I wouldn't think twice about it.
Landscaping a yard for someone is not participating in their sin, for goodness sake.
Not from me. I'm curious if they treat all sinners this way?
Exactly.
I agree. And like the book says, "The wealth of the sinners is laid up for the just."
But seriously, didn't Joseph work for an ungodly Pharaoh? Joseph was such a good steward of the Pharaoh's money, that he got promoted and became very rich himself.
I hardly think that Pharaoh was any more righteous than these two homosexuals.
Already posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1723571/posts
yitbos
I do not support them. Their position seems overwrought and dogmatic. They were just asked to do some landscaping work. I do not understand why the clients' lifestyle choices were relevant.
Do they refuse to do work for someone who has divorced?
This said, I believe that they should be free to associate with whomever they want. Refusing to do work for someone is not illegal. But when they make their bigotry public, they should be prepared to suffer social opprobrium.
http://www.garden-guy.com/
You can email him from this website. Yes, we all should support and congratulate him!
If nothing else, there doesn't seem much logic to their refusal to do business with the homosexuals. Rather than make a fairly pointless and counterproductive statement, it would've been much smarter to just take the homosexuals' money and, say, donate it to their church or that group opposed to gay marriage. Instead, the homosexuals will probably just make a point of finding a homosexual landscaper now from the ads in a gay publication perhaps.
I wouldn't refuse their business for something like that either.
BUT, I support the gardener's freedom to do so.
I believe you are wrong. Would you work for a child molestor?
As do I. As a Christian businessman, however, I would have handled it differently.
Good idea.
One day you will stand before the Almighty to be judged. Was your fornication worth it?
This should be his choice. Just as it should be a homosexual's to not perform work for a heterosexual.
Sexual preference should not be a "protected" class from either side.
I had a homosexual come into my business a few weeks ago and did everything possible to sell him.
When he left, I had $300 of his in MY pocket.
Our church got some. My kids got some.
... And my wife got the rest. lol
I don't think it has to do with not doing business with sinners. As all have sinned. But there is a difference in being a sinner who realizes their sin and one who says what they are doing is not sinful and wants to force that view on everyone else. Not only force it but make it legally acceptable and legally enforceable by the power of the government to punish you. It would be like doing yard work for activists for making murder normal, or stealing, or lying or in this case sodomy. There is a big difference in accepting sinners and accepting those who claim their sin is not a sin. Free country. That is until homosexuals get protected group status by the government then the government will force you to work for them and your freedom of association is taken away.
I consider homosexuals to be disgusting, sick bastards. That doesn't mean I wouldn't take their money. Child molesters, however, are pure evil and should be shunned.
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