Comments on: Freakin’ freaks are freaking out.

By: TampaZeke

TampaZeke — Mon, 18 Feb 2013 18:04:42 +0000

Not only that but dress designers and hair dressers are going to flee in disgust as well!

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 03:25:06 +0000

He also gets an audible laugh when he says the gay couple are his friends.

By: Bill T.

Bill T. — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:48:42 +0000

We get the government we deserve.

By: PLAINTOM

PLAINTOM — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:37:33 +0000

Apparently he has never seen the FTD logo.

By: Priya Lynn

Priya Lynn — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:29:07 +0000

Trig, actually I think that was several florists, none of them in the town she was in were willing to send her flowers.

By: Timothy (TRiG)

Timothy (TRiG) — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:27:29 +0000

> Or an anti-anything florist, for that matter.

There was the florist who refused to send flowers to “evil little thing” Jessica Alquist. So it does happen. Rare, though.

TRiG.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:30:00 +0000

The weirdest part to this whole new argument about florists and cake shops and the like is that they have ZERO to do with gay marriage being legal or not. Case in point is the recent cake shop who refused to sell a wedding cake to a lesbian couple in Oregon. Well guess what? Gay marriage isn’t recognized in Oregon. Gay (non-binding) wedding ceremonies are legal in all 50 states and always have been. The reason why that couple has sued in Oregon is because of its anti-discrimination laws. But I suspect that even NOM realizes that businesses fighting for the right to discriminate against gay people in general is not going to garner any sympathy, so they make it about marriage.

By: Neon Genesis

Neon Genesis — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:07:57 +0000

When did the florist argument suddenly become so popular? I don’t recall ever hearing this argument being used in the Bush years. Back then it was always about the bible this and the bible that but suddenly this year the argument from florists seems to be the most popular fallacy against gay marriage.

By: CPT_Doom

CPT_Doom — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:17:35 +0000

And of course no one in a capitalist system would ever fill that unmet market demand.

By: Snowman

Snowman — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:00:30 +0000

I cannot say that I have ever met or even heard of an anti-gay florist. (Or an anti-anything florist, for that matter.)

Come to think of it, of the several florists I’ve known over the years, at least a couple were gay.

Even for those that aren’t, When people being in relationships, more people being able formalize those long-term relationships or even get married and shit means your business goes up, you would tend not to ask too many quesitons or be too judgemental, I would think.