Posted on 06/15/2015 3:36:45 AM PDT by markomalley
First there was the New Mexico wedding photographer. Then there was the Indiana pizza maker. Now there is the Maryland disc jockey.
The national debate about how to balance religious conscience protections and gay equality flared in the large, mostly liberal Washington, D.C., suburb of Montgomery County Friday, when Dani Tsakounis tried to help her brother hire Ultrasound Deejays for a party. An owner of the business told Tsakounis he would not provide the DJ because Tsakounis’s brother, a Silver Spring therapist, is married to another man and the birthday party they are hosting is for their 60-year-old roommate, who is also gay.
“I just said, ‘We won’t be able to do it, we’re a Christian organization and it would go against our faith, I’m sorry,’” Michael Lampiris, co-owner of Ultrasound Deejays, said Friday.
Tom Tsakounis, 46, was so upset when his sister told him that he posted the news on his neighborhood listserv, prompting calls of sympathy from neighbors. He also registered a complaint with the Montgomery County Human Rights Commission, which hears cases of alleged discrimination.
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You know, just because a straight person finds the act of homosexuals repulsive, doesn't make them a bigot.
Like it or not so is homosexuality.
Most Christian churches outside of the catholic church, recognize divorce.
And in doing so ignore Jesus's teachings in Matthew and Mark.
Dating someone else after divorce e is NOT, REPEAT. NOT adultery.
Marrying someone after divorce is. Or so Jesus taught us.
Consider that a DJ was hired to do a pedophile orgy
Well considering that it is still illegal (at least for now), that is a different situation then gay marriage which is legal in Maryland. Maryland especially will destroy this DJ through financial and boycott. Our country is in trouble.
When you tell someone they have discriminatory taste, its a compliment. Whether it relates to choosing a fine wine, art or fancy cars, we all make decisions to acquire things, attend events and associate with people. If someone doesn't want to go to a gangster rap infested bar, or a certain bad section of town, or be at a gay birthday party, it is clearly their choice to do so.
Your heterophobia is bigotry....
To Jim Robinson,
A am a freeper who is annoyed at the homosexual trolls on Free Republic.
Please block these trolls as they seek to harm the FR website.
This is not about whether being gay is legal. It’s about whether a Christian can refuse to offer their services at gay weddings, birthdays etc, which inevitably exhibit disgusting, abhorrent, depraved behavior.
You are the one who introduced adultery into a very straightforward matter.
Bottom line, almost all Christian churches in this country outside the Catholic church recognize divorce and have done so for eons. Ergo your adultery analogy is moot. It doesn’t apply. I am quite sure the founders of the Methodist Church for example know the bible a beck of a lot more than you do, and are fully satisfied that divorce is consistent with Christian beliefs. Something that homosexuality is definitely NOT.
Do you know what adultery is? Two divorced people that get (re)married are not committing adultery.
You say that like it's a bad thing......................
Don't yell at me. Yell at Him.
"And he saith unto them, Whosoever shall put away his wife, and marry another, committeth adultery against her. And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery." - Mark 10, 11-12
"Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery." - Luke 16: 18
"But I say unto you, That whosoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causeth her to commit adultery: and whosoever shall marry her that is divorced committeth adultery.: - Matthew 5:32
It’s really too bad. I don’t want to go to a gay wedding with a bunch of drunk gay guys. I’ve heard they really pack them in there.
The DJ of course. Like you had to ask. Things are so upside down in this country right now.
You said, “This business owner is just a bigot.”
That’s not true at all. He is not forcing his beliefs on anyone, nor is he being hateful, nor is he being intolerant. He’s being Christian.
The bigots are the ones who believe their ideas are the only way people should be allowed to live. He’s not forcing them to not have a DJ or making laws that punish them for beliefs nor is he attacking them in any way at all. He’s saying he won’t be their DJ. That’s a far cry from being a bigot. The true bigots in this case, are the homosexuals and their accomplices who can’t respect this man’s religious beliefs and who seek to punish him for having the religious belief and who seek to remove all religious beliefs from the public sphere.
You said, “There is nothing “Christian” about a birthday party.”
That’s not so for everyone....for Left Looney atheists, that may be so.
Regardless, Christians are called to holiness. Celebrating a mental disorder that is wholly not Natural and is spiritually and physically deadly does bode well for one’s soul in the afterlife, eh?!
All he had to say was...sorry we are booked. no muss no fuss
Because everyone knows that there is a dearth of gay DJs.
First: He should state "I'm an individual, not a government, the Constitution doesn't limit me"
Second: DJs should be banned. The queers should either play their own recordings, or hire a real band.
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