Technically, of course, the Court still upholds the First Amendment.
The point is that those freedoms are now moot in cases like
the following --be assured that there will be even more such cases
with the legal system, all the way to the top, subservient
to homosexuals.
How will Christians respond ? Prediction #1 :
As ineffectively as possible.
I no longer will send unsolicited offers to any Christians to provide
a wealth of hard facts and solid and altogether new arguments
that really should be able to defeat the homosexuals.
The effort is useless, Christians prefer to lose.
I have already -repeatedly- sent such offers over the course
of many years, since the 1990s. Always with no reply
or no reply that gets anywhere.
However, maybe there is an exception out there somewhere, Christians
(or Jews or Buddhists, etc ) who do want to win. If anyone who reads
this is willing to make the necessary contacts, so that someone needing
help
is actually willing to proceed in a new direction, and spend serious time
and would like me to act as a consultant to them, let me know
and I would still be willing to do all that I can. But first I would need
assurance that they are prepared to listen to what I may say
and prepared to make a commitment to actually prevailing
in what would necessarily be a helluva fight.
Prediction # 2 :
No-one will reply to this offer, either.
Want to know why I am disgusted ? Isn't it obvious?
Billy
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US Supreme Court declines case on freedom of religion
and same sex marriage
Alison Lesley ("World Religion News," April 7, 2014)
The Supreme Court has ruled that they will not listen to the case of a
photography company based in New Mexico that refused to take the wedding
photographs of a same-sex couple.
In 2006, Vanessa Willock approached the company called Elane Photography
owned and run by Elaine and Jonathan Huguenin to ask them to be the official
photographers for her wedding to Misti Collinsworth. However, the Huguenins
are Christians who oppose gay marriage and have previously refused
requests to take photographs of scenes that depict violence or maternity
photographs that include nudity.
Elaine and Jonathan believed that taking photographs of the same-sex couple
would breach their freedom of speech, because they considered their
artistic photography as a method of speech. However, when they officially
refused
Vanessa’s request, she filed a complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights
Commission.
The complaint was upheld, but Elane Photography appealed, saying that their
human rights were ignored under the First Amendment and a state law that
protected their religious freedom to express their beliefs. Eventually the
case reached the Supreme Court, but on Monday, April 7th the case was
dismissed, upholding the original decision by the New Mexico Human Rights
Commission that Vanessa and Misti’s human rights were violated.
There are laws throughout many American states that prevent for-profit
businesses from discriminating against potential customers based on their
sexual orientation. These laws have been incredibly controversial, with some
arguing that it is no different from forbidding discrimination based on age,
gender, or race, and others stating that businesses should be able to decide
who they work with, regardless.
Objections such as the ones raised by Elane Photography are becoming more
and more frequent, and many cases have been centred around weddings. For
example, gay weddings have been the reason for problems with bakeries in
Colorado and Oregon, and a florist in Washington. The key problem within all
of
these cases is that on either side is a party claiming that their personal
freedoms were violated. How are you meant to decide whose personal freedom
is more important?
The decision by the Supreme Court has been hailed as a great victory by
those that support same-sex marriage, and a continuing travesty against
religious freedoms by those that supported Elane Photography........
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