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Couple fined for refusing to host same-sex wedding on their farm
New York Post ^ | 11/10/2014 | Andrea Peyser

Posted on 11/10/2014 4:47:53 AM PST by Crazieman

Cynthia and Robert Gifford are caught in a same-sex nightmare. They’ve been forced to defend themselves against claims that they’re lesbian-hating homophobes.

“We respect and care for everyone!’’ Cynthia Gifford told me. “We had an openly gay man working for us this past season,’’ she said.

“We’ve had a woman who’s transitioning to be a man. We don’t discriminate against anyone.’’

But the government of the state of New York sees things differently. The Giffords, who own the bucolic Liberty Ridge Farm in upstate New York, were ordered to pay a total of $13,000 — a $10,000 fine to the state and another $1,500 to each member of a lesbian couple to compensate them for “mental anguish.’’ All because the Giffords, devout Christians, refused to hold a same-sex wedding ceremony on the property in which they live, work and have raised a daughter, 17, and a son, 21.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: couple; fined; gaymarriage; homosexualagenda; refusing; samesex; tyranny
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1 posted on 11/10/2014 4:47:53 AM PST by Crazieman
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To: Crazieman

The homos are a really vicious lot. They troll the country looking for people to attack.


2 posted on 11/10/2014 4:49:19 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Crazieman

Is this really what a mojority of Americans want?


3 posted on 11/10/2014 4:51:27 AM PST by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: Crazieman

Freedom of religion no longer exists.

Leftists insist that freedom of religion is only the freeom to think what you want, but the moment you begin to live your life based on those beliefs, they demand that their state religion be followed and that all others contrary to theirs be punished by the force of law.


4 posted on 11/10/2014 4:54:02 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: Crazieman

Wire tapping and recording telephone conversations wihout your knowledge and permission is against the law ... get the money back ten fold.


5 posted on 11/10/2014 4:54:56 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true .. I have no proof .. but they're true.)
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To: Crazieman

This isn’t about ‘equal rights’. We could have a discussion about that. The ‘Gayfioso’ want to punish.


6 posted on 11/10/2014 4:55:09 AM PST by griswold3 (I was born here in America. I will die here in a third world country. Obama succeeded.)
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To: Crazieman

The Lord will bless them, so they need not worry. The ungodly homosexuals
will have their reward…and it’s not the puny $1500 they each received. But the state of New York, that stole $10,000 from this Christian couple, will have God’s punishment meted out in full measure. It will definitely be severe.

“Be not deceived. God is not mocked.”


7 posted on 11/10/2014 4:56:22 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Crazieman

Fight back, sue the officials involved personally and the complainers under civil right’s laws and RICO. The First specifically protects religion. Hobby Lobby made it clear the protected religious rights carry over into business for business owners. There are many other laws to use to break the Gaystapo, from the 13th Amendment, ex-post-facto, takings, cruel and unusual, etc, on. Do the same to the Gaystapo as was done to the KKK.


8 posted on 11/10/2014 4:56:54 AM PST by Mechanicos (Nothing's so small it can't be blown out of proportion.)
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To: Crazieman

The end is surely near!


9 posted on 11/10/2014 4:57:42 AM PST by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: demshateGod

“Is this really what a majority of Americans want?”

The majority of Americans are ignorant backward hicks who are easily lured by racist right-wing propaganda and need the more enlightened minds of the Progressive elite to force them to act properly.

I know this because it’s all I’ve been hearing in the mainstream media since last week’s election.


10 posted on 11/10/2014 4:57:55 AM PST by Junk Silver
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To: Crazieman

The perverts continue to attack our society with the Government willing help..


11 posted on 11/10/2014 4:58:50 AM PST by SECURE AMERICA (I am an American.. Not a Republican or a Democrat.)
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To: Crazieman

Why would a sane person want to hold the most important event of their life at a place that was being FORCED to host the event?

WAIT! Never mind. The first adjective answers my question, doesn’t it?


12 posted on 11/10/2014 4:59:30 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: samtheman
The homos are a really vicious lot. They troll the country looking for people to attack.

The GOVERNMENT is a really vicious lot. It trolls the country looking for people to steal money from.

13 posted on 11/10/2014 5:00:13 AM PST by Elsie ( Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Crazieman

Does freedom of association mean anything or is that the useless/worthless amendment?

Anyway, we need a Federal Marriage Amendment and soon.


14 posted on 11/10/2014 5:00:37 AM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: knarf

Bingo!!

This was an obvious sting operation, without the required court-mandated search warrants.

The fat, ugly lesbos should not only be sued by the victims of their persecution, but arrested and jailed for the crime of recording a conversation without warning and without a search warrant.


15 posted on 11/10/2014 5:01:42 AM PST by Westbrook (Children do not divide your love, they multiply it.)
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To: Elsie

Both our statements are true. And they join together to attack the innocent.


16 posted on 11/10/2014 5:02:33 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Crazieman

At some point evil thug bureaucrats, and honosexual who seek to force this may not like the result.


17 posted on 11/10/2014 5:02:58 AM PST by BigEdLB (Now there ARE 1,000,000 regrets - but it may be too late.)
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To: samtheman
...they (gays) troll the country looking for people to attack

They sure do want controversy. It makes no sense to want to have a wedding or have decorations etc done by people who don't support and share in their big day.

To use a wedding to promote hostility is not what real marriage is about.

18 posted on 11/10/2014 5:04:26 AM PST by grania
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To: Crazieman

They should simply claim that they CAN’T accommodate this couple because the floors in their venue have a state-imposed load limit...

;-)


19 posted on 11/10/2014 5:04:44 AM PST by WayneS (Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
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To: Crazieman

The end ain’t going to be pretty for these “gay” predators and they’ll have more than enough to answer to God Almighty about when it’s all said and done....


20 posted on 11/10/2014 5:05:36 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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