Farmer Won’t Host LGBT Weddings at His Orchard. Now a City Has Banned Him From Its Farmers Market

[Steve-French]

EAST LANSING, Mich. — A farmer wants the courts to step in after he was barred from a Michigan farmers market because he doesn’t allow gay couples to marry at his apple orchard.

Tennes was barred from the East Lansing farmers market last year because city officials opposed his decision to bar same-sex couples from getting married at his orchard, The Country Mill in nearby Charlotte. Officials modified the city-run market’s rules to require vendors to comply with East Lansing’s civil rights ordinance, which prohibits discrimination.

A federal judge ordered the city to make room for Tennes last year, saying the city likely violated his religious and free speech rights.

http://www.miningjournal.net/news/2018/06/fight-brews-with-farmer-who-bars-lgbt-weddings-at-orchard/

Kind of an interesting story here. I don't think that the couple should be required to host gay weddings on their property if they don't want to, but on the same token does the Farmers Market have the right to shun them? I'm not quite sure how a Farmers Market works and where the line is between them being a public or private entity.

 

[Seano]

Thats what the left does. Destroys anyone who doesn't conform. Don't support homosexuality? Lose your livelihood.

 

[Not A Theist]

However much I would love to see anyone and everyone accommodate LGBTQ+ people, a city exercising this kind of punitive power outside of the regular channels seems like it could lead to rather unintended outcomes.

 

[IGotAHugePeckah]

If the Farmer's Market was privately owned and run, I would agree they could shun him. But where it's city run - a public market run by tax payer dollars - I don't think they should have the right to kick him out based on how he runs his private business.

 

[dontsnitch]

I love these threads don't get me wrong, but it's funny when you think about how many gay couples are actually getting married in this dude's orchard in Michigan. The way these stories are made out is like there's a line down the road, as if it's a big deal one way or the other.

 

[woodguyatl]

Thats what the left does. Destroys anyone who doesn't conform. Don't support homosexuality? Lose your livelihood.

Dont support gay rights? Sell you apples to someone else. Two-way street.

 

[BudKing8806]

This shit is getting crazy. Why would a gay couple want to get married somewhere that's owned by a person who doesn't support the lifestyle anyways? That's the whole thing, they want to force their beliefs onto others.

 

[Johnny Mac]

The liberals have gone full totalitarian since Obama.

 

[FrontNakedChoke]

The left is nauseating.

 

[JohnnySagebrush]

Do you like apples?
How do you like them apples?

 

[HomerThompson]

Thats what the left does. Destroys anyone who doesn't conform. Don't support homosexuality? Lose your livelihood.

Yeah, it's called a society. Look it up.

 

[Seano]

Dont support gay rights? Sell you apples to someone else. Two-way street.

I agree, let the consumer decide. The guy should still be able to earn a living, FFS.

 

[lifelessheap]

If a Muslim farmer did the same the city would not react the same way.

 

[Seano]

Yeah, it's called a society. Look it up.

There's not a meme ridiculous enough to respond to this with.

 

[bushman505]

Tolerant left.

Don’t agree with their views....then you’re a fascist.

 

[SammyPops]

Actions have consequences.

 

[HomerThompson]

There's not a meme ridiculous enough to respond to this with.

Yeah, why don't we just cater to every loon?

Don't like black people? It's all good, even if you're the only market in the entire town.

Muh religion!!!!

Don't like Jews? Sounds good to me! Everyone, and no one, is welcome in our society.


My god, you're an imbecile.

 

[HomerThompson]

Tolerant left.

Don’t agree with their views....then you’re a fascist.

No, but you might be an asshole and a bigot, and therefore you can fuck off out of my society.

 

[bushman505]

What leftist always fail to realize is that soon they will be the next ones on the chopping block.

 

[bushman505]

No, but you might be an asshole and a bigot, and therefore you can fuck off out of my society.

Nah. I’ll keep doing me. But you can feel free to take that advice yourself.