Farmer banned at East Lansing city market over gay marriage stance has day in court

[TexasTowelie]

KALAMAZOO, MI -- To farmer Steve Tennes, his opposition to same-sex marriage and right to decide who can hold wedding on his orchard should have no bearing on where he can sell his fruit.

To East Lansing city officials, it's their right to ban a person who discriminates from doing business at the city's farmers market.

Arguments at the intersection of religious beliefs, sexual orientation and discrimination played out in a Kalamazoo courtroom Wednesday, Sept. 13 in a federal lawsuit Tennes has filed against East Lansing.

Kate Anderson, an attorney for Alliance Defending Freedom, which is representing Tennes, said her client was targeted by the city and excluded from its farmers' market in 2017 after posting his personal Catholic beliefs about same-sex marriage on Facebook.

Read more: http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2017/09/country_mill_farms_hearing.html

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1. "YOU MAY NOT BUY MY LETTUCE DUE TO YOUR PRIVATE BEHAVIORS!"

Is that how it played out?

[TexasTowelie]

2. I'm not certain about the lettuce,

but I suspect that he wouldn't let the gay couples purchase the cucumbers since they could be used for other purposes besides salads.

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3. "YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DO WITH SALADS! C'MON JEROME, EDUCATE YOURSELF!"