Wedding discrimination

Kendall Plantation

When is it okay to discriminate against someone based on race, gender, religion, national origin, or sexual preferences? Is it ever to be tolerated?

After all, we’ve recently seen that Christian businesses can be severely punished by the State, saddled with exorbitant fines well in excess of any potential profits from catering gay weddings, and literally run out of business for refusing to provide service to certain individuals, even when the Christians claim that being forced to participate in such an event violates their religious beliefs. Religious freedoms don’t matter anymore, according to the State. Discrimination must not be tolerated under ANY circumstances…

Which will make it interesting to see how the following story unfolds — an event planner in Texas has not only refused to serve customers of another race, she posted the following message on the Facebook account for her business as an explanation for her reaction (emphasis is original):

DON’T CALL MY BLACK-OWNED BUSINESS ASKING ME TO PLAN YOUR PLANTATION WEDDING.

Apparently the wedding planner in question, Ms. Jordan Maney, was terribly offended by the fact the location where the wedding was to take place was named Kendall Plantation and turned down the bride’s business, even though the venue was never a real plantation where slaves had been held and forced into labor. This is in spite of the fact that Kendall Plantation was not built until 2011, and then specifically for the purpose of holding wedding ceremonies.

Slaves were never forced into labor at a place called”Kendall Plantation.”

So why would it be copacetic for Ms. Maney to discriminate against white heterosexual brides, refusing their business apparently on the basis of race (she did mention that her business was “black-owned”) when Christian bakers and florists can be forced out of business for the same basic offense, refusing the business of a potential customer?

Not only did Ms. Maney refuse to serve the potential clients, she belittled and humiliated the bride-to-be for wanting to patronize her business while doing so!

Now if my opinion matters (but it doesn’t) the State should not be able to force Ms. Maney to accept a contract for work she clearly does not wish to perform, no more than the State should be allowed to force a Christian florist to provide floral arrangements to a gay wedding or a Muslim baker to provide the cake for a Jewish wedding ceremony. The lost potential income from making those business decisions should be punishment enough.

However, Ms. Maney probably doesn’t have to worry about legal repercussions because she’s in a class typically seen as the victims of discrimination, not the perpetrators. Is political correctness more important than the law in modern society?

Absolutely.