Timothy Birdnow

Love Trump or hate him, you cannot deny the importance of his victory in terms of the courts.

Here is a prime example; a Trump appointed judge just ruled in favor of a Christian photographer, who was sued for turning down a job filming a gay wedding.

From the article:

In Telescope Media Group v. Lucero, decided Aug. 23, a three-judge panel of the appeals court found, on appeal from the U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, that "even antidiscrimination laws, as critically important as they are, must yield to the Constitution.”

To force Carl and Angel Larsen, a married couple with eight children, to film a ceremony that goes against their consciencewould be to unconstitutionally force speech upon them, according to the majority opinion written by Judge David Stras, an appointee of President Donald Trump, and concurred in by Judge Bobbie E. Shepherd, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.

Attorneys for Minnesota argued that the Minnesota Human Rights Act, violations of which may be punished with fines or imprisonment, required not only that the Larsens produce both "opposite-sex- and same-sex-wedding videos, or none at all,” but that such videos must place both kinds of weddings "in an equally ‘positive’ light.”

According to Minnesota, failing to do so constitutes unlawful discrimination against prospective customers based on their sexual orientation, Stras wrote.

The Larsens view marriage as a "sacrificial covenant between one man and one woman,” Stras wrote for the court. The couple works with all people, "regardless of their race, sexual orientation, sex, religious beliefs, or any other classification,” but will not accept requests for services that contradict their religious beliefs.

This includes any services that, in their view, "contradict biblical truth; promote sexual immorality; support the destruction of unborn children; promote racism or racial division; incite violence; degrade women; or promote any conception of marriage other than as a lifelong institution between one man and one woman.”

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