A New Mexico photographer refused a job to photograph a same-sex ceremony. The New Mexico Human Rights Commission fined the photographer $6600.
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I’m glad I don’t live in New Mexico. I’d hate to be forced into what to photograph.
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Are you going to highlight it when this gets overturned pretty quickly on appeal?
Just askin’, you know.
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Sure if it gets reported.
Too often sensational studies or scandals get highlighted initially but the follow-up doesn’t occur to bring us back to what really happened.
I’ll be happy to post the update and will look for it as I suspect you are right.
But the fact that this happened to begin with in state where same-sex marriage or civil unions are not recoignized is significant, regardless of the presumptive appeal and correction.
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Well, of *course* it began in a state that doesn’t recognize same-sex unions. I mean, if the distance between a group’s desired state of affairs and the reality is greater in one jurisdiction than another, complaints will most likely be raised in the jurisdiction with the greater distance–and these sorts of things aren’t brought before commissions unless there’s a complaint.
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I don’t see it that way.
Why were Vermont and Massachussetts targeted then for civil unions and marriage? Why isn’t Utah being bombarded with marriage requests?
I think New Mexico has a libertarian streak which makes it one of the the better states in the area to target with these complaints.
It makes sense to go after easier targets and eventually get other jurisdictions to eventually follow suit. It’s worked pretty well so far.
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