Showing posts with label Curt Freed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Curt Freed. Show all posts

Thursday, April 18, 2013

Charles C. Haynes: No flowers for gay wedding: Discrimination or religious freedom?

  Imagine Robert Ingersoll’s hurt and humiliation last month when his local florist refused to do the flower arrangements for his wedding to Curt Freed, his partner of nine years.

  As longtime customers of Arlene’s Flowers and Gifts in Richland, Washington, Ingersoll and Freed had mistakenly assumed that shop owner Barronelle Stutzman would be happy to provide the service.

  But also imagine the pain Stutzman felt at having to turn down a friend and neighbor. Here’s how she described the awkward scene to KEPR-TV: