Raw Tyranny: Christian Farmers Fined $13,000 for Not Hosting Blasphemous Ceremony in Their Backyard

The USSR had its Dictatorship of the Proletariat. The USSA has a Dictatorship of the Depraved:

[A New York] court’s decision affirmed the state’s Division of Human Rights (DHR) ruling against Robert and Cynthia Gifford, owners of Liberty Ridge Farms, after they declined to host a “wedding” for a same-sex couple. The Giffords said they would host the reception for a lesbian couple, but the ceremony itself would have to be hosted elsewhere because of their religious beliefs about marriage.

Sorry, Giffords. Your religious beliefs are out of favor. Worship of perversion as an end in itself is now preferred.

DHR found that the couple violated New York’s “places of public accommodation” anti-discrimination law. If the court’s decision stands, the Giffords must pay $10,000 in state fines and an additional $3,000 in damages to the lesbian couple, Jennie McCarthy and Melissa Erwin, for “mental pain and suffering.”

What I can’t figure is, if it causes perverts “mental pain and suffering” to use our depraved legal system to destroy the lives of Christians, why don’t they just perform their sick travesty of a marriage somewhere else? Certainly there is no shortage of willing venues in New York.

Just kidding. Everyone knows that the only pain and suffering involved is what the liberal authorities will inflict on their politically incorrect victims — in addition to this sadistic humiliation:

Additionally, the Giffords – who say they have hosted a birthday party for a lesbian couple’s adopted child, and employed people with same-sex attractions – will have to provide sensitivity training to their staff and prominently display a poster highlighting state anti-discrimination laws.

At least in a soft tyranny, we don’t get shipped off to die in the snow at a Siberian labor camp. Progressives have found that it is more effective to force us to choose between betraying our beliefs and getting bankrupted by fines.

On a tip from Torcer.