New York farm owners who rent their facilities for birthday parties and wedding ceremonies have been fined thousands of dollars for refusing to host a lesbian wedding.
Cynthia and Robert Gifford were fined $10,000 and ordered to pay $3,000 in restitution to the lesbian couple after they refused to hold the wedding at their Liberty Ridge Farm near Albany, Religion News Service reported.
When Jennifer McCarthy and Melisa Erwin asked the Giffords to use the facility for a 2012 wedding, Mrs. Gifford, a Christian, said she could only host their reception on the farm, but not the wedding. Weddings typically are conducted on the first floor of the Giffords’ home, and Mrs. Gifford argued the lesbian wedding would “literally hit too close to home,” RNS reported.
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9 comments:
Just like the cake - pure liberal induced BS.
We need to be real careful who we elect to office as they appoint judges that preside over cases like these.....
We're stuck with these morons for a while - all we can do is elect better people and hope they appoint better judges to the appeals courts.....where this kind of crap can get nullified!
Who exactly has any right to impose fines for refusing to take part in a perverted activity?
the owners should have said they didn't know the proper protocol for a special ceremony as per requested .
It is their home - they pay taxes on their property, and they should be able to allow or DENY whoever they want! What give a bunch of GAYS/LESBIANS the RIGHT to SUE????? I think the PROPERTY OWNERS should have more RIGHTS here than THEM!!!!!!!!!
Time for them to make a career change.
1:23 Property rights don't trump the law, we went all through this in the 60's with businesses in the south.
This is so wrong.
6:01 I am sorry to inform you that comparing a race of people to a sexual preferance is crazy. Really being Black and being Gay the same thing. No one is born Black the chooses to have a same sex partner. Your thinking is why this country is in the crapper. As for the farm they need to appeal case to supreme court. They also need to become a private resort no a public business. Its like going into a Muslim owned butcher and suing because they dont offer pork. Libtards
12:01 Isn't religion a choice?
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