Utah Christian company refuses to print LGBT Pride shirts for atheist group

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15. AofU isn't suing them

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Dan said he even told the reporter last night that he wasn't planning any legal action, and the reporter ran with the lawsuit idea anyway:

I told Chris that I hadn't ruled it out, but that I also had no current plans for a suit. He mentioned the case(s) against the florists who refused to deliver flowers for Jessica Ahlquist, and said that they were being sued under state laws. He asked if Utah had any similar laws, and I replied that I don't know. I told him that the only thing I could think of that even comes close is Title II of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but that TIKI specifically said they disagreed with the message on the shirts, not necessarily the fact that we are atheist, and so they probably were _not_ violating the law.

Basically, Chris Jones kept trying to make the story more sensational and sounded like he desperately wanted me to say we're going to sue the pants (or, in this case, shirts) off of TIKI Printing, and then twisted things to suit the narrative he was promoting.

I know, it's difficult to think that a member of the news media would do such a thing, right? Ha!

TIKI has the entire email exchange up on their Facebook page. Initially they did just refuse the entire order on religious grounds; it wasn't until Dan brought up possible legal violations that they were suddenly OK with printing the web address but not the graphic.