Family farm banned from city farmers market over refusal to host gay weddings

[jmyrlefuller]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/family-farm-banned-from-city-farmers-market-over-refusal-to-host-gay-weddings-awaits-ruling-in-legal-battle/ar-AAMMu9V

by Tyler Olson
July 31, 2021

Following a bench trial this week a federal court in Michigan is set to rule in the case of a farm that was banned from a city-run market in East Lansing over its owners' refusal to allow same-sex couples to hold weddings on their property.

The years-long legal battle that started in 2016 is yet another example of the difficulty federal courts are having balancing the First Amendment rights of religious people and the rights of gay people not to be discriminated against. And it implicates two major Supreme Court rulings from the past four years.

Country Mill Farms is run by Stephen Tennes and his wife Bridget, and they sold their produce at a market run by the city of East Lansing, Michigan for years. The family also hosted weddings on their property but in 2016 temporarily stopped doing so amid controversy over a Facebook post in which the family said it objects to same-sex weddings because of their Catholic faith.

[ColdSteelTalon]

I guess we will see where the state falls on this. If individual religious liberty is destroyed then America has fallen far from its founder's design and intentions.

[Smokin Joe]

If the courts think they can overrule the relationship between someone and their Deity, well, God will get them for that.