The New York Times can run an anti-Catholic ad and refuse an anti-Muslim ad without so much as a peep. But a Memphis t-shirt company refuses to print pro-LGBT shirts and they are in trouble.
A Lexington, KY t-shirt company is under investigation by the city’s Human Rights Commission after they refused to print t-shirts for a local gay rights organization.
The owner of “Hands On Originals,” a well-known t-shirt company in the region, declined to print the shirts for the city’s Gay and Lesbian Services Organization (GLSO) because it would conflict with their Christian convictions.
The privately owned company is now accused of violating Lexington’s Fairness Act – which protects people and organizations from discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The attacks are out of line, said Jim Campbell, an attorney with Alliance Defense Fund, the organization representing “Hands On Originals.”
“No business owner should be forced to violate his conscience simply because someone demands it,” he said. “The Constitution absolutely supports the rights of business owners to decline a request to support a message that conflicts with their deeply held convictions.”
The owner says “All I ask for people is to respect my right as an owner to not produce a product that is contrary to my principles.”
Not in Obama’s America, bub.
April 3, 2012 at 10:36 am
Such an example of "tolerance" and "diversity" from the homosexual fascists. But that's a door that only swings one way.
April 3, 2012 at 11:34 am
The word "demand" from the Alliance Defense Fund says it all. To give people what is theirs is fair, but to demand what belongs to others is theivery, stolen goods. It is the business owner's choice about what work he will do (because the complaintants are free to make their own damned T-shirts, nobody is stopping them. But to impose their will against another person's free will is coercion, slavery). A gun to the head is not freedom. It is laughable that because the government says it is freedom, it is freedom. It is only freedom when it is freedom. FREEDOM
April 3, 2012 at 11:37 am
P.S. like marriage. but with the corruption of marriage the corruption of the whole culture has become debased.
April 3, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Its as if the people who lodge these sorts of complaints have been reading Atlas Shrugged or the Fountainhead and were just waiting for the day when they could play an Ayn Rand villain.
April 3, 2012 at 3:52 pm
More from the Homofascists. And Rush, Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck said that gay marriage was not a "threat." Where have they been all this time?