A Christian printing company is facing a major setback after a Kentucky Human Rights Commission demanded that they print LGBT propaganda and go through extensive “diversity training.”
Via Daily Caller:
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An administrative law judge has ruled that a Kentucky printer’s refusal to print gay pride T-shirts “constitutes unlawful discrimination,” and, by extension, that printers cannot refuse to print materials promoting ideas they disagree with.
Hands On Originals is a business that prints custom designs on clothes, accessories and other items like mugs and bottles. According to the ruling, Blaine Adamson, its managing owner, “instructed his sales representatives to decline to design, print, or produce orders whenever the requested material was perceived to promote an event or organization that conveys messages that are considered by the sales representative or Mr. Adamson to be inappropriate or inconsistent with Christian beliefs.”
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In 2012, the Lexington Gay Pride Festival asked the company to print them shirts, but they politely declined because it violated their Biblical beliefs.
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“The evidence of record shows that the respondent discriminated against GLSO because of its members’ actual or imputed sexual orientation by refusing to print and sell to them the official shirts for the 2012 Lexington Pride Festival,” Human Rights Commissioner Greg Munson wrote.
Munson also said that he believes it’s a two-way street. Gay companies should also have to print Christian messages as well.
But the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) is helping the Christian company. They believe Hands on Originals had every right to refuse to print something against their religious beliefs.
“No one should be forced by the government—or by another citizen—to endorse or promote ideas with which they disagree,” ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jim Campbell said. “Blaine declined the request to print the shirts not because of any characteristic of the people who asked for them, but because of the message that the shirts would communicate.”
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Not only did the judge rule that Adamson’s actions constituted unlawful discrimination in violation of the Fairness Ordinance, he also ordered him “to participate in diversity training to be conducted by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission within twelve months of the issuance of this order.”
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