This Is Only The Beginning

Get ready for more of these cases now that judges are put their religion above the law.

The Knot removes Texas listing after venue refuses to host gay wedding
Yahoo Lifestyle*
By Sabrina Rojas Weiss
January 27, 2019

Texas couple Aaron Lucero and Jeffrey Cannon had just begun their wedding venue search when they got an unpleasant surprise: The owners of their first choice, The Venue at Waterstone, emailed to say they shouldn’t bother visiting because a gay wedding would be against God’s “plan and design for marriage.”

While Texas law doesn’t prevent discrimination based on sexual orientation, this refusal of service was still “like a punch to the gut,” as Lucero told Out last week. The couple had made their list by searching popular wedding planning site The Knot, and the Venue at Waterstone did not indicate the owners’ LGBTQ ban in its listing. Lucero and Cannon, like other couples who have experienced similar rejections, say they’d like venues and wedding websites to do more to protect them.

“Our prayer is that God will one day open your hearts as well so that you will be able to welcome all of His children into your beautiful venue,” Cannon wrote in a reply to Waterstone owner Lyle Wise, which Lucero shared in a tweet. “It may not come until you have a loved one that is LGBT and is able to convince you that this is not a choice, as was the case with my family. Until that day comes however, we would petition you to please make your faith known to the public on your website and with theKnot.com so that other same sex couples do not have to go through the same rejection that we have gone through with you.”

There are going to be more and more of stores refusing our business just because we’re LGBTQ even in states that have protection for us. My prediction is that we are going to see more federal appeals to state laws placing them above the law.

In over 200 years history of our country if laws were “religiously neutral” you couldn’t be exempt from the law but judges are being appointed that are twisting the First Amendment to mean that you are above the law if you claim the law interferes with your “religious beliefs” and there is not religious test to see if that is really true or not.

Mark my words you are going to see this progress from beyond us to include discriminating against other religions and eventually to race and marital status.

*I have a problem with Yahoo putting LGBTQ+ in their "Lifestyle" section. Being LGBTQ+ is not a lifestyle!!!