August 25, 2012
By Frances Kelly
What's the price for defending gender-integrated marriage? How much did it cost a Vermont business to live out its faith?
The answer: $30,000.
Two women from New York, Kate Baker and Ming Linsley, sued the Wildflower Innof
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Wildflower Inn
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The owners of the inn, Jim and Mary O'Reilly, are Catholic and believe in pro-gender marriage. They refused to celebrate the marriage of the gender-segregated couple.
The American Civil Liberties Union helped the monogender couple win their lawsuit.
ACLU:
A Vermont resort . . . finalized an agreement to resolve the lawsuit today. As part of the settlement, the resort will pay $10,000 to the Vermont Human Rights Commission as a civil penalty and will place $20,000 in a charitable trust to be disbursed by the couple.
According to the ACLU press release, Vermont law prohibits businesses from recognizing gender differences: "As part of the settlement agreement, however, the Wildflower Inn agreed that Vermont law prohibits unequal treatment of same-sex couples." As part of the settlement, the resort agreed to stop hosting wedding receptions for all couples....
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