The Left is, if anything, persistent. Local ordinances, human rights commissions. They even have a proposed federal law to suppress the first amendment right to free speech and religious liberty.
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Always, and this is critical, in cases against Christians.
The Kentucky Supreme Court handed a victory Thursday to Lexington promotional print shop owner Blaine Adamson. In its ruling, the Kentucky Supreme Court unanimously affirmed, as Alliance Defending Freedom attorneys argued from the beginning, that the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization did not have a legal right to sue Adamson or his business, Hands On Originals, for declining to print a message that violates his religious beliefs.
Bakers, Florists, photographers, and artists of all sorts have won a string of religious liberty victories across the nation. In every case, a gay couple or group chose specific businesses and requested something that violated the owner’s right of religious conscience. When the proprietor refused on religious grounds they were sued.
We should remind you that the goal of lawfare is not just to win the case but to send a message. Failure to bend the knee to the social justice left’s Human rights and diversity commissions comes with a price. Lawsuits and negative public coverage in the press. Years of legal bills as the case grinds through the courts — all over so-called anti-discrimination language that deliberately discriminates against people of faith.
Wait, let me clarify.
To the best of my knowledge, no gay couples are approaching Muslim bakers or Muslims in any occupation for services that violate their faith. These “lone-wolf” LGBT cultural terrorists are targeting Christians.
…the Gay and Lesbian Services Organization, … filed a complaint with the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission and alleged illegal discrimination despite eventually obtaining the shirts for free from another printer.
The Kentucky case took seven years to reach this resolution. A colossal waste of taxpayer money. All to determine that the commission’s enforcement guidelines were unconstitutional.
The Left’s cultural warriors are finding it increasingly challenging to use lawfare tactics to intimidate people of faith. And that sends a message of its own. That these efforts will not go unchallenged, that targeting Christian business owners is not an easy win. But we need more.
We need Anti-SLAPP laws to apply nationwide.
The law should stipulate that in such cases, all court fees, costs, and the defendant’s legal fees could be the responsibility of anyone filing these baseless discrimination lawsuits. It will be left to the court to determine to what degree. But it would go a long way to sending a new message. That before you bring a discrimination lawsuit based on a discriminatory ordinance, that you can prove you aren’t just using the court system to suppress the rights of people of faith.
Conservative Daily | ADF: Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission v. Hands On Originals
