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.”
Probably the best thing an out of state organization can do is flood the state with pictures of the homosexual couple, with a warning to businesses to not provide any product or service to them, not because they are homosexuals, but because they are so litigious that it could ruin them as a business.
“These people are looking for an excuse to sue others into ruination. Refuse to provide them any product or service for your own protection, or it may cost you your business.”
From the article:
The Court found that “the Constitution and Canons of TEC have no provisions which state that a member diocese cannot voluntarily withdraw its membership.” The ruling found that had there been such a provision, it would have violated the Diocese’s “constitutionally-protected right” to freedom of association. “With the freedom to associate goes its corollary, the freedom to disassociate,” Judge Goodstein said.
This woman was exercising her freedom to disassociate when she chose not to sell flowers for a purpose she did not agree with.
She should take this to the Supreme Court on First Amendment grounds, as well as equal protection grounds. Apparently, South Carolina's freedom to disassociate is Washington's discrimination.
-PJ
“Stutzman did refer the couple to a different shop but that was not enough.”
It never is. The gaystapo will be satisfied with nothing less than the destruction of anyone who does not openly celebrate their perversion.
Somehow, they would successfully sue you for having the prayer meeting.
Why does a political judge get to decide her fate.
What about her right to be judged by her peers (Jury)?
There are many things wrong about this case. No one s/b forced to act against their conscience. That is the essence of tyranny.
Terrorism.
If we donate now she is going to have to give it to the leftists terrorists.
Make a fund that supports her not in her name, and provide all the monies she needs until the courts are done, then give it to her.
“Also, find a muslim restaurant that caters and tell them you want pulled pork for a southern-style bar mitzvah.”
Caterers generally have a list of items they provide.
Somebody needs to run the judge out of town on a rail.
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The judge:
The lovely couple: 
What a free country. Perverts have more rights then honest folk. And before you start whining about the word pervert look it up.
I don’t want this country to keep going as it is. Better if we could just start over.
What happened to the First Amendment freedom of religion? What these liberals states are subjecting people to, by definition, is tyranny. And why these people continue to live in these states is a mystery to me.
The judge who made this ruling should be shot.
I hope the fags who are doing this are real butt proud of themselves.
Goes to show you what the Westboro Baptists are really about. They’d rather protest soldier’s funerals.
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