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Court rebuffs couple's religious argument for refusing gay customers.
A St. Cloud couple will not be able to refuse wedding videography services for same-sex couples after a federal judge on Wednesday dismissed their lawsuit challenging Minnesotas human rights laws.
In a 63-page ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge John Tunheim wrote that a provision of the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA) prohibiting discrimination by businesses was not unconstitutional. Tunheim rejected the couples argument that the law amounted to a state effort to stamp out expression opposing same-sex marriage.
Carl and Angel Larsen sued the states commissioner of human rights and attorney general in December in an pre-emptive effort to avoid penalties for turning away same-sex customers.
The Larsens, who use their Telescope Media Group to promote their Christian beliefs, want to go into the wedding film business, but serve only heterosexual couples.
http://www.startribune.com/federal-judge-dismisses-lawsuit-by-minn-wedding-videographers-who-sued-to-refuse-same-sex-customers/446237143/
RKP5637
(67,107 posts)CurtEastPoint
(18,641 posts)past two turds like this. "Angel" my ass.
HAB911
(8,890 posts)I wouldn't want to eat a cake baked by xtian assholes either