Re: Mgo, What's Up With East Lansing?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:35 pm
There's always more to the story. This one is all over the place.
-- Organic farm
-- They're Catholic
-- They refused to host a lesbian wedding on their farm in 2014
-- The father posted about same sex marriage on the farmers market website in August 2016.
-- The City said they didnt want him there due to facebook complaints but he showed up anyway and the city didnt refuse him a place?
-- The father made another Facebook post a couple months later on the farmers market webpage about same-sex marriage
-- The citys view is that everyone needs to comply with their anti discrimination policies, not just within east lansing jurisdiction but in a farms general business practices
-- The farms counter argument is that they are located outside east lansing and should not be required to comply just because they do business within east lansing
-- the farm also specifically stated they do follow policy because current employees are LGBT
None of this makes sense.
My personal opinion is that, as Catholics, they're religiously confused in the first place, which would explain their practice of hiring LGBT but not serving LGBT. Thats like the non-black owned Cotton Club hiring the whitest looking Negroes but refusing to serve Negroes.
Do they also not service divorced persons or protestants when they host weddings?
Why wouldnt a company comply with the laws of the jurisdiction they do business within? Can Company A refuse to comply with Jurisdiction B laws because their headquarters are in Jurisdiction C, legally? Or is that standard?
-- Organic farm
-- They're Catholic
-- They refused to host a lesbian wedding on their farm in 2014
-- The father posted about same sex marriage on the farmers market website in August 2016.
-- The City said they didnt want him there due to facebook complaints but he showed up anyway and the city didnt refuse him a place?
-- The father made another Facebook post a couple months later on the farmers market webpage about same-sex marriage
-- The citys view is that everyone needs to comply with their anti discrimination policies, not just within east lansing jurisdiction but in a farms general business practices
-- The farms counter argument is that they are located outside east lansing and should not be required to comply just because they do business within east lansing
-- the farm also specifically stated they do follow policy because current employees are LGBT
None of this makes sense.
My personal opinion is that, as Catholics, they're religiously confused in the first place, which would explain their practice of hiring LGBT but not serving LGBT. Thats like the non-black owned Cotton Club hiring the whitest looking Negroes but refusing to serve Negroes.
Do they also not service divorced persons or protestants when they host weddings?
Why wouldnt a company comply with the laws of the jurisdiction they do business within? Can Company A refuse to comply with Jurisdiction B laws because their headquarters are in Jurisdiction C, legally? Or is that standard?