Do you want this to happen to your state?
Same sex marriage claims that gender segregation in marriage
is beneficial for society and children.
Business owners who disagree are driven out of the marketplace.
This ad from Preserve Marriage Washington shows a brief clip
of the Catholic innkeepers Jim and Mary O’Reilly who were sued for declining to
host a gay wedding at their home.
Redefining marriage masquerades as "equality" but how fair is it to penalize a couple $30,000 and force them out of the wedding business just for being Catholic?
Same sex marriage not only deprives children their right to
both a mother and a father, it also violates the religious rights of Americans
to run their businesses according to their faith-filled principles.
Same sex marriage is anti-gender and anti-Catholic.
Reject Referendum 74.
Defend pro-gender marriage. Because gender matters to everyone, including people with
same sex attraction.
It's not forcing them out of business for being Catholic. Their stated policy if a gay couple wanted to have a wedding reception there (not even host the wedding mind you, JUST the reception) was to ignore them.
ReplyDeleteSecond, as a place of public accommodation, THEY BROKE THE LAW by refusing service of a couple SOLELY based on sexual orientation. As part of the settlement they can't host wedding receptions anymore because they do not want to host gay couples weddings. As a place of PUBLIC ACCOMMODATION, they cannot discriminate, which they did.
http://vtdigger.org/2012/08/23/same-sex-couple-aclu-vermont-prevail-in-discrimination-lawsuit-settlement-with-wildflower-inn/
These people are not victims. They broke the law. Quit acting like gay marriage caused this.
"Under the Fair Housing and Accommodations Act, public inns in Vermont with more than five beds and no stated religious affiliation are not allowed to discriminate based sexual orientation."
Maybe they should have posted a sign that said "Same-sex couples aren't allowed"? At least OWN their discrimination, Fran.
The business owners have served people with SSA in the past. They don't have a problem serving food or drink to people with SSA. They don't discriminate against individuals with SSA.
DeleteThe difference here is that we are talking about marriage. Catholics believe that marriage is between one man and one woman. To host a wedding for two women is contrary to their faith. They were forced out of the wedding business for upholding their religious convictions.
You say they broke the law. That's right, just like civil rights activists broke laws in the 60's to highlight the injustice of the laws. The laws were wrong, not the civil rights activists. In this case, it's not the business owners who are wrong for defending natural marriage, the law is wrong to distort marriage.
To think that you're comparing what these people are doing to Rosa Parks is utterly laughable and an even greater insult to the injustices sufferd by African Americans who fought for equal rights. They are CLEARLY in the wrong, the law forbids them from discriminating against gay couples. Their policy of "ignoring couples requesting a reception" is discrimination, plain and simple and amounts to unequal.
ReplyDeleteAccording to the settlement, the Wildflower Inn was acting in good faith and in compliance with a 2005 decision by the Vermont Human Rights Commission that said that while no public establishment may refuse to serve a customer based on sexual orientation, the inn could advise potential customers of the owners’ Catholic beliefs.
Based on that decision, the Wildflower Inn’s stated policy was to ignore all calls and emails from same-sex couples hoping to host a wedding or reception at the inn. If confronted, their policy was to advise the couple that the owners did not believe in same-sex marriage, but would host the reception if they really wanted to.
They violated THEIR OWN STATED POLICY on the matter. And they weren't hosting the wedding, just the reception, to my knowledge.
The law isn't wrong, it's there to prevent every business in vermont from refusing to host the wedding reception. Fran, you're clearly grasping as straws in an effort to show the "Dangers" of gay marriage
"no public establishment may refuse to serve a customer based on sexual orientation, the inn could advise potential customers of the owners’ Catholic beliefs."
DeleteSo the inn can tell their customers that they are Catholic, but acting according to their Catholic beliefs is outlawed. That's why this law is unjust and should be overturned. In effect, it outlaws Catholics. (And orthodox Jews and Muslims and Christians.)
This is why the constitution protects freedom of religion. Because of intolerant ideas like imposing same-sex marriage on other faiths.