<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue-Light, Helvetica Neue Light, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div><span>Yep, just change the statement to "our religion forbids us to marry inter-racial couples' and "we're a private business so we can choose who to serve". OK?</span></div><div></div><div> </div><div>Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA </div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 22, 2014 8:52 AM, Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br>
<div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3533170151"><div><div>The Hitching Post claims to be a religious entity. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Yet, it is a for-profit business (so claims the Cd'A City Council). As such the Hitching Post is bound to, and must obey, local laws (city code in this case) . . . including a Coeur d'Alene city code that stipulates that a business cannot refuse service based on sexual orientation.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><span style="">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style=""><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style=""> </span></div><div><div><span style="">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span
style="">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span style="">- John Lennon</span></div><div><span style=""> </span></div></div><div class="yiv3533170151yqt0915066402" id="yiv3533170151yqt96996"><div><br clear="none">On Oct 22, 2014, at 8:22 AM, Janesta <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:janesta@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:janesta@gmail.com" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=janesta@gmail.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">janesta@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><blockquote
type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Butch needs to give it a rest.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>The Hitching Post is a private business and should have the freedom and right to serve whomever they want. There is a BOOMING business in Arizona for "clearing houses" for business which same gender friendly. Perhaps someone should start one in Coeur d' Alene<br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv3533170151gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv3533170151gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 8:05 AM, Tom Hansen <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=thansen@moscow.com&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">thansen@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote class="yiv3533170151gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div><span></span></div><div><div>Courtesy of today's (October 22, 2014) Spokesman-Review.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>-------------------------------------</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; clear: both; line-height: 1.2; font-size: 28px; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(17, 17, 17);">Otter seeks full panel review of gay marriage ruling</h1><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">BOISE – Idaho Gov. Butch Otter wants a larger group of judges to reconsider the recent decision that overturned the state’s ban on same-sex marriage. “I will continue defending Idahoans’ self-determination and the will of Idaho voters who decided that traditional marriage is a core principle of our society,” Otter said.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">The governor on Tuesday announced
that he would file a petition seeking a review at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals by an 11-judge panel. A three-judge panel made the earlier decision ruling that Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. Otter and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden earlier requested that the 9th Circuit assign a full 11-judge panel to hear Idaho’s case, rather than a three-judge panel. That request was denied. Wasden didn’t join with Otter in Tuesday’s petition. </span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">However, his spokesman, Todd Dvorak, said Wasden plans to file an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in the coming weeks.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">Deborah Ferguson, attorney for the four Idaho couples who successfully sued to overturn Idaho’s same-sex marriage ban, said, “If necessary, we will continue to defend
the District Court and 9th Circuit decision.”</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">Otter, in a news release, warned of “increased religious strife” because “unaccountable judges,” not the “democratic process,” were making the call on gay marriage.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">“One of the key arguments against the Idaho Constitution’s defense of traditional marriage has been that redefining it to include same-sex couples would not harm anyone. But the Hitching Post example shows the fallacy of that position,” he said.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">The Hitching Post wedding chapel in Coeur d’Alene has filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Coeur d’Alene, saying the city’s anti-discrimination ordinance would force its owners to
perform marriages that they object to on religious grounds. That prompted a fundamentalist Christian group in Mississippi to claim that the city of Coeur d’Alene has threatened to arrest the two ordained ministers who own the chapel – but there was no such threat.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">The city has asked that the lawsuit be withdrawn; the chapel recently filed to become a religious corporation, which would exempt it from the city ordinance.</span></div><div style="margin-bottom:21px;overflow:visible!important;"><span style="">Otter is in the midst of campaigning for a third term; his two leading opponents, Democrat A.J. Balukoff and Libertarian John Bujak, oppose continuing Idaho’s court fight against same-sex marriage, which became legal in Idaho last week.</span></div></div><div>-------------------------------------<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><span
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