Posted on 02/19/2015 6:07:07 AM PST by servo1969
Seventy year-old Barronelle Stutzman may lose her home and life’s saving for not selling flowers to couple for their gay wedding. Stutzman did refer the couple to a different shop but that was not enough.
The court ruled recently that both the state and the same-sex couple may collect damages and attorneys’ fees not only from her business, but from Stutzman personally.
The Alliance Defending Freedom reported:
A state judge ruled Wednesday that Washington floral artist and grandmother Barronelle Stutzman must provide full support for wedding ceremonies that are contrary to her faith – a decision at odds with the views of most Americans according to a newAssociated Press-GfK poll. The court claims that Stutzman’s referral of a long-time customer to another business for floral design and support for a same-sex ceremony violated Washington law.
The court also ruled recently that both the state and the same-sex couple, who each filed lawsuits against her, may collect damages and attorneys’ fees not only from her business, but from Stutzman personally. That means the 70-year-old grandmother may not only lose her business, but also her home and savings because she lives her life and operates her business according to her beliefs.
“The message of these rulings is unmistakable: the government will bring about your personal and professional ruin if you don’t help celebrate same-sex marriage,” said ADF Senior Counsel Kristen Waggoner, who argued before the court in December. “The two men had no problem getting the flowers they wanted. They received several offers for free flowers, and the marketplace gives them plenty of options. Laws that are supposed to prohibit discrimination might sound good, but the government has begun to use these laws to hurt people – to force them to conform and to silence and punish them if they don’t violate their religious beliefs on marriage.”
Don’t mess with the queer gestapo. Those are some wicked and evil bass turds.
What happened to the right to refuse service? The pendulum will swing back and perhaps the remaining will get back in closets with their disgusting behavior and acts.
Says the gay Nazis: "All lifestyles are equal, but some are more equal than others. We must fight for our right to force our beliefs on others! Down with intolerant grandmothers!"
We can’t beat them. The courts will also rule in the homosexuals’ favor.
I can’t help thinking that the U.S. is gonna fully deserve what will be done to them at the hands of the mozloid filth being imported en masse by the 0bimbo State Department.
The gays will be among the first to be thrown off buildings, burnt alive in cages, or having their heads slowly sawn off with rusty kitchen knives.
Someone should find a way to incite Muslims, in cases like these.
I for one, would love to see the “progressives” reaction to Muslims tossing a homosexual couple off of a roof in this country and stoning them, like they did in Syria.
Liberal dementia run amok.
So, let me get this... um.. straight... Any gay person walks into any business, they basically have a “right” to that businesses labor, regardless of any other considerations. The government is mandating this, therefore it is tyranny.
“People need to donate to this woman and help her”
I’m sure this scumbag Judge could attach the donations to the award. Now if the donations were made to an adult “Trustworthy” relative it might work.
Find a homosexual-owned flower shop and ask them to provide flowers for a “gay cleansing” prayer meeting.
Also, find a muslim restaurant that caters and tell them you want pulled pork for a southern-style bar mitzvah.
Who is this worthless creep of a judge? Google Earth would be helpful.
Where are the Westboro Baptists when you need them?
There is an unforgivable sin and it’s not murder. It’s thinking in an unapproved way. For that you lose everything.
I’m curious why defendant Stutzman’s name is mentioned several times- in most of these articles and most of these threads - but hardly ever the plaintiffs’ names, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the couple, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, and the judge’s, Alexander Ekstrom.
I will never view ISIS as liberators.
Public accommodation emanates from the largess of the Federal Government.
So says the court system.
there comes a point when an armed response will be provoked by someone who see’s their future ripped from them
For the GPS-guided munitions?
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