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Steve Tennes, owner of Country Mills Farm, has sued the city of East Lansing, Michigan, after it barred him from selling produce at a local farmer's market because of his views on gay marriage. Tennes, a Catholic, says he employs and does business with gay people but he will not host gay weddings at his farm. City officials say this violates recently enacted policies banning vendors at the farmer's market from discriminating in any aspect of their business.
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"Let them eat cake!"
only if it's : non-gmo, fair trade, gluten free, clean, small batch, farm to table, carbon neutral, holistic, sugar free and artisanal...
Let them eat cock.
As a Catholic he shouldn't be offering his farm for weddings in the first place. It is not sacred grounds.
And how do you know his farm isn't on a burial ground? Huh?
*sneer*
His intolerance shall not be tolerated! In the name of tolerance!
So, the government says you did something wrong and then bar you in some way from making a living.
Sounds like freedom to me!
If the Westboro Baptist Church wants to do some productive trolling they would bring their signs to this farmer's market, saying nothing while doing their shopping. Let's see how far the city willing to take their policy of vendors being non-discriminatory. Probably a moot exercise as the point of the flexibility of their 'principles' will be lost on them.
We hate fruits!
We GOD hates fruits!
Why'd he make them so sweet then?
This is forbidden knowledge.