When Angel Lane approached New York-based D Auxilly about creating a $1,500 jumpsuit for her upcoming wedding to Tiffany Allen, D Auxilly’s dress designer Dominique Galbraith reportedly didn’t ask about her measurements or her wedding date — she mentioned how her love of Jesus forbids her from treating lesbians like other couples.
Ugh.
The Metro reports that Galbraith responded:
‘I wouldn’t be able to make a piece for a same-sex wedding. It goes against my faith in Christ. I believe Jesus died for our sins so that we would live for him according to His Holy Word.
I know you both love each other and that this feels right but I encourage you both to reconsider and see what the Lord has to say and the wonderful things He has in store for you both if you trust and obey Him.
God Bless and be with you both! I’m available to talk and share more about Jesus if you’d like. Feel free to call me.
Let’s address one thing real quick: Galbraith’s response is creepy as hell. Any “helpful” anti-gay Christians should know that when you talk about “the wonderful things He has in store for you if you trust and obey Him,” it comes off as a barely veiled threat suggesting that he has terrible things in store for you if you don’t trust and obey your concept of “Him.”
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Lane and her fiancée both live in St. Louis, Missouri and the dressmaker is located in New York City, New York. Missouri doesn’t have laws preventing businesses from discriminating against people based on sexual orientation, but New York does. That means that if Lane and Allen decide to pursue legal action against D Auxilly, they could possibly have a case.
This incident is just the latest in the ongoing U.S. battles over marriage-related business owners refusing service to same-sex couples over their “religious beliefs.” And as always, it’s not about the dress or even about Jesus, it’s about giving businesses permission to refuse service to same-sex couples.
Related:Aaaannd now a Tennessee bakery doesn’t wanna make a gay wedding cake either (because Jesus)
Yeah, Lane and Allen could always “go somewhere else” (just like black people refused service at lunch counters in the 1960s could always “go somewhere else,” right?), but if we let business owners refuse to serve LGBTQ people, allowing pharmacists, medical professionals, hotel clerks, teachers and others to do the same could literally be the difference between life and death for some queer people.
Here’s hoping an alternate dress maker will hear this couple’s plight and step in to help them. Extra points if they’re also Christian. Love thy neighbor, and all that.
Cam
And before the usual accounts that pretend to be LGBT and defend bigots come in to try to lie about this situation…
No, this isn’t the same as asking a baker to make a cake with KKK on it. Because the black baker isn’t making KKK cakes for everybody else EXCEPT black people.
If this dressmaker said she never makes pantsuits for anybody, that is her choice. If she says she’ll design an outfit for anybody EXCEPT LGBT people…..guess, what. That’s bigotry and discrimination!
Jared MacBride
Wht’s sad about this story is Queerty’s laziness – using a stock photo of a woman surrounded by wedding dresses who is NOT the person mentioned in the story.
Brian
I’m shocked they went with a black woman. That is completely against their “white people are evil (unless they’re muscular and shirtless on Instagram)” agenda
MikeE
Regarding the use of a black woman as the image: the dress-maker IS black and caters (apparently) uniquely to a black clientele. Their website features only black women and black heterosexual couples.
Chrisk
“I wouldn’t be able to make a piece for a same-sex wedding. It goes against my faith in Christ”.
Does anyone know what Jesus said about SS couples? I know Jesus had plenty to say about divorce. I wonder if she she has a policy against that as well?
A bit off topic but does she think slavery was a good thing? The bible is practically a how to Manuel on how to treat them, beat them, and sell them.
TheMarc
@Jared MacBride – Exactly. And it’s not just lazy; it’s irresponsible.
dmar
I agree, why not use the business logo?
IWantAFullBeard
Weird to live in NYC and be homophobic.
Wicked Dickie
Homophobia, racism, sexism, anti-semitism, xenophobia all happen in NYC.
IWantAFullBeard
I’m aware. I just think if you have some hideous problem with homosexuals, NYC would be an odd place to live. If it is such a problem for the woman, why not move to a location where there aren’t homosexuals.
Wicked Dickie
Because she has the right to live in NYC just like anyone else. That’s why the rich mom’s that live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan do not venture above 86th St, or below 34th St. Such is life.
Chrisk
What about people of other faiths, divorcees, adulterers, different fabric wearers, etc? The bible clearly hates that so and sometimes recommends death.
Now of coarse you’ll only hear God loves you as the pick and choose bigot ignores what you just asked.
Cam
Jesus spoke out against divorce, but I notice she doesn’t deny service to divorced people.
OzJosh
Jesus also said precisely nothing about homosexuals. Zilch. Not even a veiled reference. So it would be fun watching this Christian nitwit trying to find the verse in the bible in which Jesus makes his thoughts on the subject known.
TheMarc
Really, at this point, it’s more surprising when a Christian business owner comes out in support of the LGBT community than the opposite. And honestly, I really do have mixed feelings about these types of cases. I don’t think businesses/business owners should be delivering religious messages or deciding who they do and don’t serve based on their religion; ethically or commercially. But I don’t know if government needs to get involved with cake makers and seamstresses. Housing, medical, job, basic accommodations, certain essential services…yes. But I do see where my logic can lead to a slippery slope. I just don’t care as much about these types of vendors and their (most likely hypocritical) personal business practices, legally. But I do believe each and everyone of them should be identified and held up to the light.
Chrisk
I hear you. I’d rather identify them and leave them to their fate rather then become martyrs to it. However, if we let them have their way then it’s back to Jim Crow days.
Cam
Except it is these religions trying to get involved with government, not the other way around. This is a secular society and businesses that want to serve the public need to aide by public law.
What these people want is to impose their religions and force other people to live by them. Remember, it wasn’t that long ago that the Mormons used their religion and the part of the Christian Bible to defend racism against black people. Religion can be used to excuse anything.
Lastly, this isn’t valid religion. She isn’t surveying her customers to exclude divorced people which violates Biblical law, AND she is speaking aloud trying to push her opinions on others as a woman, which also violates Biblical law. If these people want to pretend their bigotry is religious based, then they need to live by all of the laws of their religion, or shut up.
Mikey E
The amount of public attention these cases garner far exceeds their number or importance. In all 50 states of the United States of America, from the beginning of same-sex civil unions in 2000 until July 2019, the total number of wedding-related lawsuits is:
Cake vendors – 3
Florists – 1
Photographers – 1
Catering/venue – 5
All other wedding related products/services – Zero
That’s 10 legal actions over 19 1/2 years, during which time billions of civil lawsuits of all types were filed. It’s a ridiculously small number of cases and nearly all of them were resolved for tiny amounts of a few thousand dollars. They get vast amounts of attention because the Christian Right obsesses over homosexuality generally, and because these cases were touted for years as reason for voters to ban gay marriage.
ShiningSex
being ignorant and prejudice to anyone is anti-God.
Cam
@Mikey E
So the same account that went into spasms of outraged tears when some person online said something about Melania is all set to try to say that any attacks on LGBT people should be ignored.
We get it, you defend anti-LGBT bigots.
PinkoOfTheGange
With no physical store front, it might be hard to actually sue them as a public accommodation. Another sign that our laws are not keeping up with tech.
Cam
They have a public business license and advertise. Not a problem.
Mikey E
Interesting issues in this one. There’s no question that the store would be bound by NY law even though the customer is in Missouri. However, it is unclear that D Auxilly falls under the state/city civil rights laws. First question is how many employees it has. If it’s a one-woman shop, then she is off the hook. Second question is whether it’s a public accommodation. There’s a lot on the D Auxilly website which suggests that it is not, that she requires potential customers to fill out a form and takes those who fit her artistic vision. OTOH, she has off-the-rack dresses which would be sold to the public at large.
Cam
Except you’re lying. The number of people employed is irrelevant when it comes to discriminatory sales practices in a public business.
The fact that you would stretch so hard to defend an anti_LGBT bigot is just the norm for you.
darklight413
This is why trumpazees are trying to push through “religious freedom” laws. So they can be free to be assholes. Religious people are the most gullible people on the planet. That’s why republicans got in bed (literally) with them in the 80’s. They present themselves as “god’s chosen political party to hook them. They never ask for proof or facts or present any kind of logic and they’re afraid of EVERYTHING. And so easily manpulated.
jsmu
Sue the shite out of the KUNT. Run her out of business.
Mike_M
If she follows, Christ, then she should know he NEVER said a single word about homosexuals. . NOT ONE WORD. there was an Apostle who did, but he was not repeating the words of Jesus, he was making it up as he went along. This is simply a case of bigotry. If she had a desire to make the gown she would because (and again it pays to know the New Testament) Jesus tells his followers they only have to confess and ask for forgiveness to be accepted by God. So if she did feel it was a sin, she could be forgiven for it.
Sometimes, you have to call a thing what it is without candy coating it to make bigots feel better.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Vile, abhorrent, noxious crunt!!
I absolutely hate Blacks or those filthy pigs orthodox Jews who spew bigotry on another minority. They seem to conviently forget the millions slaughtered in Germany or the thousands lynched in the United States because of the EXACT same bigotry and hatred. ….
curiobi
Sigh… Seriously to anyone trying to ram their religion down other people’s throats who did not ask and are not interested STFU is always an option.
Also why attract drama bakers? -Just put up a simple sign. If LGBT people see a sign that says, “we are a traditional Christian bakery so some orders may be difficult for us to fill, go with god” or some such, that is called giving people a polite heads up! It is 100 percent more likely they will say, okay, I’ll spend my gay income somewhere else bigot! Who would want to support your business if you don’t support them?!
Don’t invite people in, then ambush them with your religious ideas and use it as an excuse try to make them feel small about who they love! I just can’t stand that unacceptable trash! .
Oh and @plays well with others, friend, no shade but YIKES! My comment is how you express your annoyance without rampant misogyny and racism! Take a pill next time then comment, because that was hate speech level harsh, and then what’s the point if you’re as bad as what you are complaining about?
screwtop
Jesus never did anyting of the sort. This woman is not a “christian” – she’s just a half-witted self-opinionated homophobic bigot.
Her loss – no doubt she will now face a loss of 10% of her potential market, because the LGBTQ community will have nothing to do with her – a further loss from their friends, who will have nothing to do with her – and a further loss from all the other members of the community, who sympathise with the LGBTQ community. Given the overheads and margins of these businesses, that could be extremely detrimental to the stupid bitch’s profits.
MISTERJETT
that’s just the opposite of what Jesus teaches.
johnnymcmxxx
Jesus was Gay.
woodroad34
Yeah, she should try out for the Olympics with those mental gymnastics. Jesus never said anything about wedding dresses and gays–that would be Old Testament chicanery.
Invalid
Funny. It seems it wasn’t that long ago that Jesus was also cool with the subjugation of women. In some states and churches he’s still all into that.
ShowMeGuy
Leave it to a Lesbian couple to find the ONLY wedding dress maker who isn’t a GAY MAN.
Dimples girl
That’s not only funny, but it’s the damn truth. My very gay brother made my lace and silk wedding gown!
greybat
I guess they were trying to support a Sister.
Surprise!
Felecia
Okay, I know that phone books and Yellow Pages are a thing of the past; but what happened to the alternate book that listed only Gay and Lesbian -owned or friendly business establishments…??? Every city with a good-sized LGBT community had one…you’d find it either in our bookstores and/or bars and clubs. I think it’s better to support your own than hire someone who might hate and ridicule you, and blatantly tell you in Churchie-speak that you should dump your same-sex fiancee’ and find a MAN. I was told the same thing by a homophobic stepmother; I agreed, but only if SHE tried sleeping with some woman to make it a fair exchange. I never had to hear that crap again, and this so-called pious Christian got caught fukkin’ her pastor, lol…oops ! I’ve been with my wife for 19 years; my father’s marriage to her lasted 5. ‘Nuff said, Churchies, lol