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Christian Farm Owners Receive Massive Fine For Refusing To Host LGBT Wedding

Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:54
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In Obama’s America we support Islam and persecute Christians

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:” Romans 1:26

President Barack Obama declared June to the LGBT Pride Month. He has also declared war on – not ISIS – but on Christian values and beliefs held by the majority of Americans living in the United States. Because Obama has created this rabidly Pro-LGBT climate in this country, judges all across the nation are ruling against Christian beliefs and passing judgment in favor of the vast minority views held by vast minority of people who make up the LGBT Mafia.

It is open season on Christians in America, and Obama is printing hunting licenses.

NEW YORK  - Christian farm owners in upstate New York who declined a lesbian couple’s request to hold a wedding ceremony on their property have been fined $10,000 and ordered to pay the women $1,500 each 

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Cynthia and Robert Gifford, who own Liberty Ridge Farm near Albany, rent their facilities for birthday parties and about a dozen weddings each year.

When Jennifer McCarthy and Melisa Erwin, a same-sex couple from Newark, N.J., requested to use the facility for their 2012 wedding, Cynthia Gifford offered the farm for a reception, but not for the wedding ceremony. Weddings typically are conducted on the first floor of the Giffords’ home or in an adjacent field.

“It literally hits close to home,” said the Giffords’ lawyer, James Trainor. He said the farm owners attend a community church and cite their religious belief of marriage between a man and woman for declining to hold a same-sex wedding on their property.

Administrative Law Judge Migdalia Pares of the Bronx rejected the owners’ argument that the farm, which is also their home, is not a place of public accommodation and is therefore not subject to the anti-discrimination provisions of New York’s Human Rights Law.

The decision said Liberty Ridge qualifies as a public accommodation because it regularly collects fees for space, facilities, services and meals, so it cannot be considered “distinctly private.”

“The fact that the Giffords also reside at Gifford Barn,” the decision says, “does not render it private.”

The farmer owners must pay $13,000 in fines and restitution, the agency ruled. Trainor said the Giffords are considering whether to appeal or pursue further legal action.

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  • 10k is nothing compared to the everlasting pain and agony LGBT people are going to enture if the lake of fire.

  • ‘Civil rights’ laws are a clear example of what happens when paranoid, vengeful minorities win power over a majority with whom they do not identify and against whom they have historic grudges…

    ‘Civil rights’ laws wrongly assume a right to invest minorities with the ability to contract with unwilling persons without the required presence of mutual and un-coerced assent, a central pillar of contract law.

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  • Whatever happened to the old sign that said
    We reserve the right to refuse service to anybody.
    And what happened to marriage?

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