From Bakers to Ministers from Massachusetts to Houston...

[4est_4est_Gump]

They're never going to stop!

COEUR D’ALENE, Idaho – Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys filed a federal lawsuit and a motion for a temporary restraining order Friday to stop officials in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, from forcing two ordained Christian ministers to perform wedding ceremonies for same-sex couples.

City officials told Donald Knapp that he and his wife Evelyn, both ordained ministers who run Hitching Post Wedding Chapel, are required to perform such ceremonies or face months in jail and/or thousands of dollars in fines. The city claims its “non-discrimination” ordinance requires the Knapps to perform same-sex wedding ceremonies now that the courts have overridden Idaho’s voter-approved constitutional amendment that affirmed marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

“The government should not force ordained ministers to act contrary to their faith under threat of jail time and criminal fines,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jeremy Tedesco. “Many have denied that pastors would ever be forced to perform ceremonies that are completely at odds with their faith, but that’s what is happening here – and it’s happened this quickly. The city is on seriously flawed legal ground, and our lawsuit intends to ensure that this couple’s freedom to adhere to their own faith as pastors is protected just as the First Amendment intended.”

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Coeur d’Alene officials told the Knapps privately and also publicly stated that the couple would violate the city’s public accommodations statute once same-sex marriage became legal in Idaho if they declined to perform a same-sex ceremony at their chapel. On Friday, the Knapps respectfully declined such a ceremony and now face up to 180 days in jail and up to $1,000 in fines for each day they decline to perform that ceremony.

http://www.adfmedia.org/News/PRDetail/9364

 

[RobDownSouth]

Once again, AJ teh Athiest has a Christian wedge issue to demonize those libruls.

The issue here is commercial wedding facilities. If you're gonna treat marriage as a business, you gotta follow business rules.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

I like to think that someday people will stop discriminating against other people.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I like to think that someday people will stop discriminating against other people.

You honestly think that the good city folk would be brave enough to tell the local mosque who it had to marry?

 

[RobDownSouth]

You honestly think that the good city folk would be brave enough to tell the local mosque who it had to marry?

aaaaand we quickly move to phase two, in which AJ pivots from defendin' Christians to demonizin' Muslims....

 

[cowslinger64]

Once again, AJ teh Athiest has a Christian wedge issue to demonize those libruls.

The issue here is commercial wedding facilities. If you're gonna treat marriage as a business, you gotta follow business rules.

I'm sure they'll be excited when the courts changed to the laws, ala Hobby Lobby in order to save us from those eeeeeevil scary gay people that everyone seems to know a whooole bunch of!!!