Wonderful dystopian action by a farmer's market - from The Detroit News:
Jacques: Farmer gets boot for expressing his beliefs
When East Lansing officials told Steve Tennes he was no longer welcome to sell his apples and doughnuts at the city-run farmers market, he couldn’t believe it.
All it took to earn the government’s wrath was penning a social media post about his faith.
Last December, Tennes, who owns the Country Mill Orchard and Cider Mill in Charlotte, wrote a Facebook post explaining his family’s Catholic views on marriage, and how their deeply held beliefs are why his farm won’t host same-sex weddings.
The city’s response — banning him from its farmers market — reminded the former Marine of the time he spent near the border of North Korea. Tennes could see into the country, and it impacted him how people there live their entire lives in fear of the government.
That’s how he felt when he got the letter from East Lansing.
“I felt it in my gut. This isn’t real,” Tennes recalls.“We have freedom of speech in this country.”
Tennes felt especially betrayed that he was being denied rights he fought to defend while serving his country. His wife Bridget is a former Army nurse.
This is a perfect example of how activism has skewed people's concept of reality. The 2010 Census long-form shows that a bit over 3% of the US population self-identifies as being gay or other (here and here). How do they get to dictate how the rest of us should act and run our businesses. We certainly need to show tolerance towards everyone regardless of their beliefs or practices but bending over backward to overcompensate for a population of less than 4% is just plain crazy. We need to start some activism campaigns for us normal people - we are certainly being discriminated against...
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