After agreeing to provide the flowers for a wedding, Kim Evans of Petals and Promises Wedding Flowers sent an email last month to the couple, saying she didn't know it was a same-sex wedding and would have no part of the ceremony.
"I am choosing to decline your business. As a born-again Christian, I must respect my conscience before God and have no part in this matter," the email said.
Yet another case of someone dredging up their religious beliefs and demanding that everybody else live by their moral code.
... and like a certain case involving one Scott Brockie, the business is declined after agreeing to do the work in the first place. Apparently "christianists" have forgotten the very real persecution their forebears experienced at the hands of the Romans, because they are practicing more or less the same kind of oppression against GLBT people. Worse yet, they express their bigotry after making a business agreement.
The question for the denizens of places like "No Apologies" is clear enough in my mind - how is the couple supposed to know that this - or any other - business is run by some narrow-minded christianist who will deny them service? ... and just why should someone's faith be an excuse for denying service to someone else?
... and these are the same people who question the "necessity" of Bill C-389? Seems to me that they are the best argument for that bill being passed into law.
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If there was contract (a deposit should be sufficient) I hope there is a major law suit against this wretched bigot. The way to stop these creeps is to hit them where it hurts, their bottom line.
What we need is a federal version of Bill 44. It's about our children!
Anonymous@11:55: This has nothing to do with Bill 44; and Bill 44 has nothing to do with protecting children ... come to think of it, a homosexual couple getting married has nothing to do with other people's children either.
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