Christians Face Prison for Refusing to Create Invitations to Blasphemous Ceremony

Can we call the coerced normalization of sexual depravity tyranny yet? Yes, we can:

Two Arizona Christian artists face the possibility of being jailed, in addition to being fined, after they recently refused to make invitations for a same-sex wedding.

Joanna Duka and Breanna Koski own a Phoenix-based stationary company that crafts wedding invitations, among other things. But they recently refused to create invitations for a same-sex wedding, citing a contradiction with their religious beliefs.

Now they’re being accused of violating a Phoenix ordinance that protects gay people from discrimination.

Authoritarians are letting the First Amendment have it with both barrels, blasting away at both freedom of religion and freedom of speech:

The ordinance also prohibits the business owners from informing customers and the public why they can only create art consistent with their Christian beliefs about marriage.

According to Charisma News, the business owners face a fine of up to $2,500, in addition to six months imprisonment for holding to their Christian beliefs.

The word “tyranny” doesn’t get the best responses from focus groups. That’s why ever more bogus euphemisms are used, like “anti-discrimination.”

In a free country, exchanges are made between willing partners. If two sides enter a transactional relationship voluntarily, both benefit. That is the basis of capitalism, and the reason authoritarians hate it.

When the relationship is coercive, only one side benefits. The other side is being robbed and/or enslaved. That is the basis of authoritarianism.

Morally, forcing a people to design invitations against their will does not make any more sense than forcing costumers to buy the invitations against their will — like the government now does with health insurance.