Posted on 04/28/2015 6:51:29 AM PDT by 11th_VA
The day before the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a historic same-sex marriage case, a Kentucky court has ruled that a Christian T-shirt company has the right not to print gay pride festival shirts.
Hands on Originals (HOO), a Christian T-shirt company in Lexington, Ky., was asked to print shirts by Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) for a 2012 pride festival. When the company turned down the order, the GLSO filed a complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission. Though the commission found in favor of the GLSO, Judge James D. Ishmael of the Fayette Circuit Court reversed the ruling.
“This Court does not fault the Commission in its interest in insuring citizens have equal access to services but that is not what this case is all about,” Ishmael wrote. Ishmael made a distinction between a company choosing not to print a T-shirt because of the sexual orientation of a potential customer and choosing not to print a T-shirt because of its message.
The owners of the company “are Christians who believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God and that they should strive to live consistently with its teachings,” the opinion read. As the company’s Web site states: “It is the prerogative of Hands On Originals to refuse any order that would endorse positions that conflict with the convictions of the ownership.”
“It is clear beyond dispute that HOO and its owners declined to print the t-shirts in question because of the MESSAGE advocating sexual activity outside of a marriage between one man and one woman,” he wrote. “The well established Constitutional rights of HOO and its owners on this issue is well settled.”
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Still can’t understand why sexual deviance has somehow become a “civil right”
The court has declared that money is speech.
Can we get them to declare that cakes, wedding photos, etc. are also speech?
It is sad that freedom of speech seems to be the legal theory upon which people are winning these cases and will probably the best tool from here on out. They courts are looking for any way to avoid acknowledging the right to free exercise of religion when it conflicts with the homo privileges and memes.
The court has declared that money is speech.
Can we get them to declare that cakes, wedding photos, etc. are also speech?
I believe the Court has also said that pornography and nude dancing are "free speech."
I think there is a VERY strong legal argument for that position. Overwhelming in fact.
Don’t fall for the “cover” issue.
If it wasn’t this, it would be something else.
This is merely the issue that they’ve found Christians to be resistant on,
and they will criminalize that resistance.
The goal being to criminalize Christianity.
Whew! That's a load off my mind.
***The owners of the company “are Christians who believe that the Holy Bible is the inspired Word of God and that they should strive to live consistently with its teachings,” the opinion read. As the company’s Web site states: “It is the prerogative of Hands On Originals to refuse any order that would endorse positions that conflict with the convictions of the ownership.” ***
The Holy Bible is God’s inestimable gift to man, as the rule and guide of our faith....
We can see ... we know ... they're just waiting .... except the ones that are (all too many, IMO) in our public school systems.
Yeah ... I know ... get cher' kids out of public schools
Not an option to the greater percentage of people
I guess that's just the ol' Devil whispering in my ear. :O
There were discussion in congress when the laws passed that it would only apply to core public accommodations such as food, housing, transportation, etc.
The only religious acts that have been banned are ones that are harmful to others such as the misuse of drugs, animal sacrifice, etc. One baker refusing to bake a wedding cake does not constitute a harmful act nor is it the denial of a core public accommodation.
He must be whispering pretty loudly because I hear it too.
The lefties have been trying to force Nelson County into forming one of their Gestapo like “human right commissions”.
Unfortunately the local paper (Kentucky Standard) is a leftist rag that makes opposition to the commission sound like troglodytes who beat up homosexuals in back alleys.
The most recent attempt failed & you should have heard the caterwauling.
But what is of note is that a rural Kentucky county of 50,000 people with a strong Catholic heritage is giving in to the gay gestapo a little at a time. The local government is still advancing the gay agenda one little regulation at a time.
In a free country, business owners should be free to refuse service for any reason. I understand that may mean a homosexual may some day refuse to do business with me for my Christian views, but that is how free people live. We are well past the time where “public accommodation” rules need to be rolled back. I’m not talking about government services of course. The government is specifically prohibited from discriminating on certain factors.
In some ways No...
You can't get fired for myriad of things these days EOE, etc etc, but you can be fired for your Politics.
Why can't any entrepreneur refuse to engage in Commerce on the grounds they don't believe in the Politics of X-Y-Z movement?
I wonder what Freeper Legal Eagles think of this defense.
If it is legit, the progressives may have opened up a can of rotten fish they never wished they would have opened...
I'm working on an essay .... my thought/draft;
Subject: homosexuality is unConstitutional
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
There is NOTHING I've encountered with the homosexual community in the last two weeks that can be identified with;
a more perfect union,
establishment of justice,
domestic tranquility,
common defense,
general welfare,
and most importantly to
secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity
Homosexuals cannot reproduce so they cannot be a perticipant in securing blessings because they produce no posterity
Because they cannot reproduce, They are a culture of death, no different than islam.
They are selfish so they cannot be part of a general welfare,
They endeavor to disengage themselves so they cannot be a participant in domestic tranquility,
They seek no justice but rather special entreaty,
Homosexuality is unConstitutional and not American
They are aliens unwilling to assimulate to a pre-existing, well operating culture
They seek discord amongst the peaceful
Homosexuality is a death cult
(and with the 24/7/wall-to-wall Baltimore .... it wouldn't take too much rewording to apply this THERE)
(Comments, critiques and flames welcome .... I'm an equal opportunity offender)
People should read the ignorant comments on that website. Most think that because someone practices an abomination to God - that Christians freedom of speech should be curtailed and they be made to fall in line with their gay agenda. They are so warped in their so-called tolerance. Gay marriage isn’t equal to blacks - a black was born black - and usually, unless these facists thrust their despicable life style in other’s faces - people don’t know they are gay.
People should read the ignorant comments on that website. Most think that because someone practices an abomination to God - that Christians freedom of speech should be curtailed and they be made to fall in line with their gay agenda. They are so warped in their so-called tolerance. Gay marriage isn’t equal to blacks - a black was born black - and usually, unless these facists thrust their despicable life style in other’s faces - people don’t know they are gay.
Dissolve these unconstitutional Human Rights Commissions. They’re simply tools for tyranny. We already have a human rights commission enshrined in the Constitution. Go to the courts with your complaints. We need to raise the bar, not lower it.
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