The Left’s Hammer and Sickle February 27, 2008
Posted by Webmaster in Abuse of Power, Culture Wars.trackback
They’re called Human Rights Commissions. Equality and liberty are diametrically opposing concepts.
Artist hit for refusal on beliefs
An evangelical Christian photographer was brought before the New Mexico Human Rights Commission after she declined for religious reasons to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony.
When Elaine Huguenin of Albuquerque, N.M., declined in September 2006 an e-mail request from a lesbian couple to photograph their ceremony, one of the lesbians responded by lodging a human rights complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Division, the state agency charged with enforcing state anti-discrimination laws and sending cases to the commission to be adjudicated.
Vanessa Willock sought an injunction to prohibit Mrs. Huguenin and her business, Elane Photography, from declining any future request to photograph a same-sex ceremony. The agency agreed to hear Miss Willock’s complaint, the latest case brought before tribunals in the U.S. and Canada that free-speech advocates say threaten expression across North America.
In the absence of Miss Huguenin, I can think of one photographer in New Mexico who might gladly take that job. Set your GPS to Ruidoso.
Comments
Sorry comments are closed for this entry