Photographer Elaine Huguenin was ordered by the State of New Mexico to give a lesbian $7,000 for declining to photograph her same-sex wedding.
Bakers, Aaron and Melissa Klein were fined $150,000 by the State of Oregon for refusal to bake a cake for a lesbian wedding based on religious objections.
Blaine Adamson was ordered by the city of Lexington, Kentucky, to undergo 'sensitivity training" for refusing to print T-shirts for a gay pride festival.
Sounds like involuntary servitude to me.
What else would one expect from the party of slavery?
Oh. I thought this was an H-1B thread.
I predict that the next front in the battle to accept gay or lesbian or any form of marriage other than traditional one will be against DEVOUT CHRISTIAN chaplains of the military ( ignore the liberal chaplains who have already sold out ).
Chaplains are COMMISSIONED OFFICERS of the military and receive a salary. Therefore, it will be but logical in the eyes of the gay lobby to target this institution using the standard tactic they’ve already used for bakers, Florists and photographers — GOVERNMENT COERCION.
If a devout chaplain refuses to perform a gay wedding, he will be stripped of his rank and dishonorably discharged.
Once this front is defeated, the next front will then be the Christian churches.
How you ask? STRIP THEM OF THEIR TAX EXEMPTION STATUS!
CWII Spark Ping — Old news, but perhaps examined from a different perspective than usual.
Geez.
I was going to open a spice business. Maybe not now.
The socialists/communists are doing all they can to destroy the entrepreneurial spirit. After all, the owners didn’t build their own businesses - the government did it for them.
Children in high school must now perform mandatory volunteerism in order to get their diploma.
Just an extension of the 100+ yrs of involuntary servitude called....the 16th Amendment; not even getting into the 4th, 5th, etc.
Add in the ‘War on Welfare’ and most income tax payers are slaves in all but name.
That's exactly right. I've been a criminal defense attorney for many years, and I have had a few real scumbag clients. But I don't defend my clients. I defend the Constitution of the United States. Making sure that even the lowest of the low are represented by competent counsel is one of the things that keeps the wolf of tyranny from our door.
I should add that a large majority of my clients aren't scumbags - they're just folks who acted like idiots on a particular day. Drank too much. Lost their temper. Let a loved one talk them into something stupid. In this criminal defense game I find myself saying "there but for the grace of God" about 100 times a day.
But some are real bottom feeders. I represent them, too.
Involuntary servitude is just the beginning...