Two Christian ministers who own an Idaho wedding chapel were told they had to either perform same-sex weddings or face jail time and up to $1,000 in daily fines, according to a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court.
Alliance Defending Freedom is representing Donald and Evelyn Knapp, two ordained ministers who own the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel in Coeur d’Alene.
“Right now they are at risk of being prosecuted,” attorney Jeremy Tedesco told me. “The threat of enforcement is more than just credible.”
The wedding chapel is registered as a “religious corporation” limited to performing “one-man-one-woman marriages as defined by the Holy Bible.”
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However, the chapel is also a for-profit business and city officials said that means the owners must comply with the local nondiscrimination ordinance.
That ordinance, passed in 2013, prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and it applies to housing, employment and public accommodation.
City Attorney Warren Wilson told The Spokesman-Review in May that the Hitching Post Wedding Chapel likely would be required to follow the ordinance.
Time is drawing near to the Return of Jesus.. He has prepared those who are seeking him.. and prophecy is manifesting daily . Luke 17:22-30New King James Version (NKJV)
22 Then He said to the disciples, “The days will come when you will desire to see one of the days of the Son of Man, and you will not see it. 23 And they will say to you, ‘Look here!’ or ‘Look there!’[a] Do not go after them or follow them. 24 For as the lightning that flashes out of one part under heaven shines to the other part under heaven, so also the Son of Man will be in His day. 25 But first He must suffer many things and be rejected by this generation. 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man: 27 They ate, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. 30 Even so will it be in the day when the Son of Man is
I will never do it!
THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS THAT THE OUTCRY WOULD BE SO GREAT THAT they would not continue to see this thru until the time of the gentiles is thru, men shall become lovers of themselves, ears are itching, if we do not do it God said they will find teachers willing to sooth their itchy ears. It is time for the great apostasy , the book of timothy speak of this very thing… and in the days of Noah their were orgies, homosexuality, giving up children to be sacrificed, people giving into diverse spirits, calling right Wong, and wrong right, not heeding the word and despising those who brought it I think this is right on tome with what has been prophesied, look up everybody
This started when GEORGE bush was in office, it became against the law to preach or speak against homosexuality, if a pastor of minister was reported as doing so, the church was /. is fined 500, and faced the danger of being closed. Greed from the churches, allowed this to happen because the government promised money to churches, the only stipulation was that they, the government could come into the church and speak, and the choice of who spoke would be that of the government churches jumped at the money without thinking of the long term repercussions ,,,, well here is the long term
That’s why we need to keep the government out the church!
Prosecution for me! NO COMPROMISE!
Im and defense of the gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord!!!
Lord help this country!!!
AND SO IT IS WRITTEN, SO IT HAS COME TO PASS
It’s time for true repentance.the Godly sorrow repentance.America is going to need God’s mercy.