WFB: A New York wedding photographer is taking Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s (D.) administration to court over state laws that threaten her with fines and jail time for her religious beliefs about marriage.
Emilee Carpenter filed a lawsuit against New York attorney general Letitia James (D.) over state nondiscrimination statutes that Carpenter said compel her to violate her religious beliefs about traditional marriage by making her publicize photos of same-sex weddings on her website. The laws require her to create photograph collections on her website celebrating same-sex weddings because she celebrates opposite-sex weddings. Violating the laws could result in tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the state taking away her business license, or even jail time.
The statutes also forbid Carpenter from publishing any sort of editorial stance explaining her religious beliefs about marriage on her website. Carpenter said in an interview that her beliefs are inseparable from her work as a wedding photographer and that the laws are violating her First Amendment rights.
“My faith has been really integral to me as a person but also to my business and the way I operate it and the artwork I create,” Carpenter said. “My faith is really the lens through which I view my art.”
“Essentially the only options New York state has left me are to violate my faith, violate the law, or to close down my business,” she said. “All artists should be free to choose the messages they promote.” read more
It’s bad enough when BigTech tells you what you cannot post on your social media, but government telling you what you MUST publish to your website should be a Constitutional no-brainer.
Anyone involved in the crafting and implementation of this ‘law’, from the intern who drafted it up to the Governor who signed it should have any college degrees they hold rescinded! If they hold law degrees they should be disbarred for life!
They should have their freedom or maybe even their lives rescinded. Tired of this shit.
Why can’t she declare herself United Wedding Photography Airlines and state that all photographs should reflect her religious beliefs, which means 100% Superstraight couples?
Or, she could make a diversity hire, hire a blind photographer, and assign that person to all same-sex weddings.
Racer X has a good idea. But take it further. Have the blind photographers seeing-eye dog be vicious and snappy. And feed it chili beforehand so it’ll shit all over the place
…so, are there any issues with Muslims not providing homosexual “wedding” services? If not, WHY not?
…I’d quote the 14th Amendment here but noted Constitutional scholar and pedophile neurosyphallis addled fraud Biden said that Amendments are not absolute, so I guess it doesn’t really matter anyway, certainly not to a Communist and cowardly Supreme Court led by compromised apparent pedophile Roberts…
It is no more illegal to be a member of the KKK than it is to be a queer.
So why do queers have protection and kkk members don’t.
Why can the left routinely refuse to hire a ‘white supremacist’?
Essentially, the left feels they have the right to discriminate against anyone they want, but that anyone in their liberal voting groups is protected from discrimination.
And they never could have gotten this kind of bullshit two sided justice through if it hadn’t been for republican legislators.
Creative work for hire is not the same as completed products for sale. Requiring photographers, bakers, and other artists (or anyone) to create something they don’t want to for someone they don’t want to work for is forced servitude.
Gays (and blacks and women and every other protected group) should certainly be able to buy whatever ready-mades are offered for sale to the general public. If this photographer sells framed prints in a gallery, she must sell to whomever is willing to pay –even if she knows her work is going to be a wedding gift to a gay couple. But work for hire is a private contract between a professional and a client to create new work. Why should a potential client have the power to compel a freelancer to take on a project, when that same professional cannot force a client to hire him or her?
xxx: There are so few Republican legislators in the NY House and Senate it really makes no difference. NYS is one party rule.