Irish Printer refuses to print wedding invitations for gay couple
 

Jonathon Brennan (29), from Drogheda, Co Louth, said he was “infuriated and shocked” when the owner of local printers, Beulah Print & Design, told him they would not do business with him because “we don’t agree with homosexuality”.

The salon owner, who will become civil partnered to his boyfriend of eight years, John Kierans (35), in August, said he had been doing business with the printers for four years before the refusal.

Mr Brennan told the Irish Independent: “It came to the time that we were to organise getting our invitations printed for our ceremony. I contacted the printers, because they know me, and they’ve done some work for me before, and I was quite happy with their work.”

He said the co-owner, Noel Tuite, initially agreed to print the invitations, but when he visited Mr Brennan’s salon yesterday afternoon, it became apparent that he had changed his mind.

“He said, ‘Myself and my business partner are devout Christians. We don’t believe in gay marriage, and we don’t agree with homosexuality. So in this instance, there’s a conflict of interest, and we won’t be able to do business with you.’

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“I was shocked. I didn’t know what was going to come out of his mouth. He said it would be the same instance if somebody came in and they wanted to get a picture of a nude woman printed. We wouldn’t be able to do that either.

“I said, ‘I wish I had been aware of your conflicts of interest four years ago before I started doing business with you.’ He went to shake my hand, but I wouldn’t shake it, and he left. I was just infuriated by this, and shocked, that this was the attitude from a local businessman. Not in my adult life have I ever experienced anything like this.”

Mr Brennan added: “The gay marriage referendum is coming up, and it’s not an open and shut case. A lot of the younger generation would believe that gay people should be entitled to get married. But not everybody thinks that way. I feel it is important to highlight that.”

This morning Beulah Print released a statement outlining why it took the decision.

It said: We, at Beulah Print, are Bible-believing Christians who are committed to standing by our conscience and God’s Word.

“We have never hidden our faith from our customers and represent the gospel at every opportunity. We are not against homosexuals however, we do not support same sex marriage, which printing wedding invitations would do.

“We believe the love of God is extended to all people and that He has called us all to walk in the light of His word, for He is the way, the truth and the life.”

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news...-31043312.html

Hope he goes out of business

well he's getting a load of ****ty publicity today, all the radio stations are talking about it

what a scummy twat
hope karma ****s him up big style

Chapters 18 and 20 of Leviticus, which form part of the Holiness code and list prohibited forms of intercourse, contain the following verses:

"You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination."

"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."


Paul the Apostle wrote in the First Epistle to the Corinthians,


“ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."


So the printers are correct as Bible believing Christians to abhor homosexuality as it says so it their instruction manual

I saw a few posts about it on fb already by noon, it's ridiculous, they should just report the business for discrimination and then forget about it. :bored:

They're talking about it on 4fm now on the Niall Boylan show

Typical :joker:

lol he's slaughtering anyone who's backing the printers up :laugh: He's my guilty pleasure

He just asked someone "How do you know Jesus wasn't gay?" :hehe:

If he wants to lose business then go for it...

and this guy owns a hairdressers and had been a customer of his for 4 years........idiot

:joker: he asks the most outrageous questions. Jesus could very well have been gay. He might have been Mary Magdalene's gay best friend.

Well he was asking this guy and he said who was he with so, we never saw him with anyone, knowing that he wouldn't say Mary Magdalene because of course the church have to deny that he could have been married to her lol, he said for all you know he could have been secretly meeting up with Judas :laugh:

if I printer refused my business I would say

"dont you take that tone with me"

:fan:

They did have a kiss once or twice, there's proof of that, funny how nobody around them though it was strange. :wink:

:laugh:

There you go then :smug:

Religious people ...In Ireland?... nah.

I'm surprised this hasn't happened before, if his thinking is due to his religious beliefs then he's entitled I guess.

People in Ireland aren't that religious anymore really, the change in such a short few years has been massive.

What about if his religious beliefs told him that he couldn't do business with black people, would you think he'd still be entitled?

I don't see why someone should get shtick for their religious beliefs. Some of the comments on here are terrible... if they'd been directed at gay people there would, quite rightly, be hell on.

I disagree. The man is a disgrace, discriminating against and humiliating that man because of who he chooses to spend his life with.

As much as it was a ****ty thing for him to do.. in the grand scheme of things, it's his business, so who can choose to serve and not serve whoever he sees fit, his beliefs are his and he's fully entitled to have them.

this is why we have laws however to stop people just making up rules as they see fit

Does the bible say that, if not it's not really comparable is it?

We don't have those laws... We have hate laws they have NOTHING to do with religious interpretation.

And then the man going off and making a massive issue out of it that could end the bloke's business and put people out of work.

And I say this as someone who believes you should live your life in the happiest way possible, whoever you are, whatever your sexual pursuasian... and whether or not you're a Christian.

So basically no you would think discriminating against a black person would be wrong then but gay people are fair game? Interesting :think:

By telling the truth about how he was treated? That sounds like victim blaming :shrug:

You're only disagreeing with me because I'm Jewish :fist:

The printing firm can decide who they do business with, it's as simple as that. It's nobody else's business how they decide on their customers.

Another non story blown up by the "gay brigade"....

True :idc:

Nope never said that.

Well maybe not, there are anti discrimination laws over here and this guy had been a customer of his for 4 years already

:joker::joker:

You never answered the question I asked though so that was the conclusion I came to from your side stepping

Do the anti-discrimination laws apply to Christians, or... not.

A gay hairdresser?! WTF????? D:

Now this... this is prejudice.

No religious reasoning just an example of pure bigotry.

If they don't want to do business with that person then that is their choice, everything else is just supposition.

You cannot be forced to give work to people because they are Gay...lol

Sure but Christians don't have special rules just because they're Christians, they'll have to follow the rules like every other person