New Mexico: Turn Down Gay Business And We'll See You In Court

From the National Catholic Register:

As a Christian, Elaine Huguenin is against efforts to legitimize same-sex “marriage.”[JMG: Scare quotes!] So, when the Albuquerque photographer was asked via e-mail in September 2006 to photograph a “commitment ceremony” for two women, Huguenin declined. That was the end of the matter, she thought.

But Huguenin didn’t take into account New Mexico’s anti-discrimination laws. Instead of hiring another photographer, one of the lesbians, Vanessa Willock, filed a civil complaint against Huguenin’s company, Elane Photography.

Now, in one of the first cases of its kind in the state, a three-member tribunal of New Mexico’s Human Rights Commission is considering the complaint brought forward by New Mexico’s Human Rights Bureau, operated by the Labor Relations Division of the state’s Department of Workforce Solutions.

The tribunal will decide whether Huguenin should pay actual and punitive damages to Willock because of her decision not to take pictures of the homosexual ceremony.

Of course, if the photographer had merely turned down the business without comment, that would have been the end of it. Or she could have cited an outrageous price. But clearly she laid some of da gud buk on the lesbian couple - hence their complaint.

From Freeperland:
- "This should be proclaimed loud and clear as to why the homosexual agenda TAKES RIGHTS AWAY from Americans."
- "The ‘gay rights’ movement is as big if not a bigger threat to America and Americans than the abortion movement."
- "Faggot fascism on the march."
- "This is exactly the work I have performed for 25 years. I left CT because I was being put in exactly the same situations by lesbos."
- "The lesbos are suffering from Christophobia."