Home Repair (alt.home.repair) For all homeowners and DIYers with many experienced tradesmen. Solve your toughest home fix-it problems.

Reply
 
LinkBack Thread Tools Search this Thread Display Modes
  #1   Report Post  
Posted to 24hoursupport.helpdesk,alt.politics.scorched-earth,alt.home.repair
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 2,623
Default Christian printer doesnt have to make pro-gayshirts, appeals court rules

Christian printer doesnt have to make pro-gay shirts, appeals court
rules

A Kentucky appeals court has upheld the conscience rights of a Christian printer who refused to make shirts promoting a gay-pride festival.

In the 2-1 decision handed down Friday, Chief Judge Joy A. Kramer said she found no evidence that the store owner refused any individual the full and equal enjoyment of goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations it offered to everyone else because the individual in question had a specific sexual orientation or gender identity.

Blaine Adamson is the owner of Hands On Originals, a Christian company that prints messages on T-shirts, pens, mugs and other accessories.

He declined in 2012 to create shirts promoting the Lexington Pride Festival, an event put on by the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, because he said the message on the shirts ran contrary to his beliefs.

Although Mr. Adamson referred the gay-rights group to another printing company that would fulfill the order, the LGBT advocates filed a complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission arguing they had been discriminated against.

In 2014, the agency ordered Mr. Adamson to make the shirts.

Jim Campbell, senior counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, which filed the lawsuit on behalf of Mr. Adamson, praised Fridays ruling as a win for freedom of speech and religion.

Americans should always have the freedom to believe, the freedom to express those beliefs, and the freedom to not express ideas that would violate their conscience, Mr. Campbell said in a statement. Todays decision is a victory for printers and other creative professionals who serve all people but cannot promote all messages.

The decision is part of an ongoing debate about whether Christian vendors, such as florists, photographers or bakers, must service same-sex weddings or promote the LGBT movements message through their work.

Mr. Adamson has stressed that he is willing to serve all customers, regardless of who they are or what they believe.

But when they present a message that conflicts with my convictions, its not something that I can print, he said in a video released in 2015. Thats the line for me.

The printer also said he regularly does business with the LGBT community and employs people who identify as gay.

In his dissenting opinion, Judge Jeff S. Taylor argued Mr. Adamson engaged in deliberate and intentional discriminatory conduct in violation of a local non-discrimination ordinance.

He also said creating the rainbow-themed shirts would not have really violated Mr. Adamsons religious beliefs.

For those of us who grew up in the 60s and 70s, a rainbow was a symbol of peace; others view rainbows as symbolic of love, life, hope, promise, or even transformation, Judge Taylor wrote. Even the Bible provides that a rainbow is a sign from God.

Bryan Beauman, co-counsel for Mr. Adamson, said religious people can decide for themselves the ideas and beliefs that they choose to express.

Reply
Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search
Display Modes

Posting Rules

Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
You Have No Right to Own a 'Military-Style' Rifle, According toFederal Appeals Court Decision burfordTjustice Home Repair 24 February 26th 17 05:42 PM
Federal Appeals Court Rules NSA Spying Illegal jon_banquer[_2_] Metalworking 1 May 11th 15 07:21 PM
Supreme Court rules 9-0 against EPA over wetlands HeyBub[_3_] Home Repair 44 March 25th 12 02:48 PM
Free speech, not crime, court rules . TMT skates again. PaxPerPoten Metalworking 5 July 24th 11 03:48 AM
OT Court Rules IRS Cannot Apply Force Against A Tax Payer AZOTIC Metalworking 5 February 4th 05 02:27 PM


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 11:59 AM.

Powered by vBulletin® Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright 2004-2024 DIYbanter.
The comments are property of their posters.
 

About Us

"It's about DIY & home improvement"