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=> welcome to a new day in america....

welcome to a new day in america....

Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Sunday, June 30 2013, 3:20:47 (UTC)
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...a florist decides she won't sell flowers to a Gay man for his wedding...she says it's her "religious right" to obey her God, althout God never said anything about Gay marriage or flowers for that matter...and so she's being sued....love it!!!

"I was not discriminating at all,” she said. “I never told him he couldn’t get married. I gave him recommendations for other flower shops.”

(try this..."I was not discriminating at all, she said. I never told him (Black man) he couldn't get a hamburger. I gave him recommendations for other restaurants")

Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson disagreed, and filed a consumer protection lawsuit against Arlene’s Flowers. The ACLU also sued on behalf of the customer, Robert Ingersoll, who has said Stutzman’s refusal “really hurt, because it was someone I knew.”

Among conservative Christians, Stutzman has become a byword - part cautionary tale and part cause celebre.

Websites call her a freedom fighter. Tributes fill Arlene’s Facebook page. Donations to her legal defense fund pour in from as far away as Texas and Arkansas.

“For some reason, her case has made a lot of people of faith worry,” said Stutzman’s lawyer, Dale Schowengerdt of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group.

Those anxieties have only increased, conservative Christians say, since the Supreme Court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act and opened the door to gay marriage in California."

...and so it goes. Just imagine that the issue is race instead of sexual orientation, something as immutable as race...and imagine this happened 80 years ago...a cracker could refuse to serve a Black.....like this lady now wants to refuse to serve a Gay.....white people also felt a religious duty not to "mix the races"...the KKK did nothing but call on Jesus as their mascot in their murderous wars against Black Americans.

...these days you can't deny service to someone based on race, or sex....but it's going to take some more lawsuits and changes to realize that you can't discriminate against people for whom they LOVE! And marry.

...great days ahead!!!

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