Thanks to God for this, and may those seeds be watered and sprout, and another take the harvest I pray appears there.īefore that, I used to do some work in the early 2000s for a music production company, CD jackets, etc. I even got the chance to discuss my faith a bit with the specific individual who requested the job. Outcome, the client respected my decision, and actually began funneling even more work to me, and today they are one of my best clients. I fully expected to lose that client, and I think at the time I even put it up for prayer on the RRBB board. I turned the job down, and told the client why. Prophetic "Fasten seat belts" sign just flicked on in Kentucky.īack in 2012, I was asked by a university client to produce a website for an LGBT club on campus. Kentucky Commission Orders Christian Company to Print Pro-Homosexual T-Shirts | Christian News Network “The respondent is ordered to participate in diversity training to be conducted by the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission within 12 months of the issuance of this order.” “The respondent is permanently enjoined from discriminating against individuals because of their actual or imputed sexual orientation or gender identity,” he wrote. In his decision, Munson ruled that Hands On Originals must accept orders to print t-shirts or other products that bear messages advocating for homosexuality, and mandated the company to undergo diversity training. “Blaine declined the request to print the shirts not because of any characteristic of the people who asked for them, but because of the message that the shirts would communicate.” “No one should be forced by the government-or by another citizen-to endorse or promote ideas with which they disagree,” agreed ADF Senior Legal Counsel Jim Campbell. “In America, we don’t force people to express messages that are contrary to their convictions.” “No one wants to live in that kind of America-a place where people who identify as homosexual are forced to promote the Westboro Baptists and where printers with sincere religious convictions are forced to promote the message of the GLSO,” said Hands On Originals’ co-counsel Bryan Beauman. “And if the Westboro Baptist Church were to say, ‘Look, we’re a church we’re promoting our church values by having our name on a T-shirt,’ I don’t see how you could refuse that.”īut Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), the Christian legal group assisting Hands On Originals, as well as local attorneys Sturgill, Turner, Barker & Moloney, PLLC, of Lexington, said that no one should be forced to print messages that violate their convictions.
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“I believe that a gay printer would have to print a t-shirt for the Westboro Baptist Church,” he stated, referring to the controversial organization whose messages express a desire for Americans to burn in Hell rather than be saved. “The evidence of record shows that the respondent discriminated against GLSO because of its members’ actual or imputed sexual orientation by refusing to print and sell to them the official shirts for the 2012 Lexington Pride Festival,” he wrote.ĭuring a hearing regarding the matter this past June, GSLO representative Aaron Baker admitted to the commission that his desire to force Christians to print pro-homosexual messages works both ways, and that the homosexual companies could be forced to print messages for the Westboro Baptist “Church.” But if there’s a specific message that conflicts with my convictions, then I can’t promote that.”īut HRC examiner Greg Munson ruled this week that Hands On Originals violated the law by not printing the shirts for the event. “I want the truth to come out-it’s not that we have a sign on the front door that says, ‘No Gays Allowed,’” owner Blaine Adamson said following the filing of the complaint. When manager Blaine Adamson declined the order due to the company’s biblical convictions not to be partaker of another man’s sins (1 Timothy 5:22, Ephesians 5:7), GLSO filed a complaint with the HRC.
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The Gay and Lesbian Services Organization of Lexington (GLSO) had wanted the company to print t-shirts for the 2012 Lexington Gay Pride Festival.
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The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Human Rights Commission issued the recommendations of its hearing examiner on Tuesday, declaring that Hands On Originals–a company that identifies as “Christian outfitters” on the home page of its website–violated the Lexington Fairness Ordinance by passing on the requested order because of its religious convictions. – A Kentucky Human Rights Commission examiner has ordered a Christian screen printing company to print t-shirts that bear pro-homosexual messages and undergo diversity training for declining to make shirts for a “gay pride” celebration two years ago.