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.”
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Even the current focus on Christians is a cover issue. The goal is to suppress any and all dissent, criminalizing it wherever possible, as a means to exercise power and establish control.
The Christians are just the next nail that gets to be hammered down.
I don’t understand this. Why not just take the order, make the shirts and make money?
As an importer, if I go into a Wine shop to sell the account and the Manager has a Gay Pride poster in his office, I am no more endorsing or agreeing with his views if I sell him wine than if he had an NRA poster in his office.
Sometimes I’m left scratching my head with a big fat “who cares?”
Furthermore...
I don’t see how selling him wine undermines my views, or my right to have the views I do.
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see my #17
When you think of the vast list of sexual deviancy and which ones have been moved into the OK column you can see where we are heading.
Adultery
Teen sex
Homosexuality
Public sex
gay marriage
gay adoption of kids
Porn's downward spiral
beastiality in some countries
prostitution
gay prostitution
child prostitution
There is almost no end to this downward spiral.
One of the few rational, moral judges.
If anybody can make any business make or print whatever design they want, then nobody really has any freedom. It would be no different than forcing a Jewish-owned printing house to print “The Protocols Of The Elders of Zion” or “Mein Kampf.”
No so-called coming out for skin color.
Of course they're "speech." They are means of expression. Like floral arrangements, reception hall decorations, and other "custom" goods and services.
They're a difference between selling a gay individual a box of Betty Crocker cake mix, and selling a gay couple a wedding cake. And that difference is, "expression."
Here’s my honest statement, DO NOT EVER OFFER a fully customizable service in today’s world, offer a set menu of options for your given service in question, and FWIW, this is about a whole lot more than concerns about being asked to validate homosexuality as okay.
That’s no Devil whispering in your ear. It is Obama and Holder in one voice of evil.
Because the media has made that kind of thing “cool”. Being a decent family guy (or gal) is sooo 80s.
We troglodytes want to bring back gay-bashing... maybe some dwarf-tossing? What else? Jean jackets, big hair, high top sneakers with fat laces... uh... hair metal?
Our paper’s favorite columnist bar none is Eugene Robinson. A 3 day a week paper & he’s in 1-2 times every week.
He is a perfect reflection of the official editorial philosophy of the paper. If it weren’t for the fact I want all the local news and activities I wouldn’t get it.
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