The New York Post wrote an article this morning on Cynthia and Robert Gifford, a New York couple, who is being fined $13,000 for not allowing a same-sex wedding on their farm:
Cynthia Gifford took a life-changing two- to three-minute phone call in 2012 from a woman she’d never met, Melisa Erwin, who was looking for a place to hold her wedding. A wedding — to another woman.
Gifford said she told her, politely, that she would not book a same-sex wedding ceremony at the farm.
She didn’t know it at the time, but the woman’s then-fianceé, Jennifer McCarthy, recorded the conversation. The pair then filed a formal complaint with the state Division of Human Rights. And this past August, an administrative law judge from The Bronx, Migdalia Pares, decreed that the farm was a “public accommodation’’ and ordered the penalties, after ruling that the Giffords had violated state law by discriminating against the two women.
Now my first thought when I read this was that New York built into their same-sex marriage law a religious accommodation. That was a big deal at the time. But apparently that religious accommodation only applies to ordained clergy and not normal citizens of New York who share the same faith.
The New York Post goes on to point out that this lesbian couple found another venue to marry them and is now living married in update New York. But that didn’t stop them from trying to punish the Giffords. And that’s exactly one of the very reasons I oppose gay marriage.
Gay couples claim they just want to get married like everyone else and perhaps some do. But unfortunately when some of those couples find someone who disagrees with same-sex marriage, they want to use the state to punish them. It’s the homosexual agenda.
Isn’t this new fascist America great??!!