Vandalism at Dieseltec
When the Supreme Court, responding to “gay” activists’ complaints, took on the lofty responsibility of addressing the definition of marriage for all Americans, a few stood out for their vocal opposition.
One person was Brian Klawiter, who runs the Dieseltec shop in Grandville, Michigan. He said he would choose not to provide service to openly homosexual customers. He then explained that he wanted to be a messenger for the silent majority of Americans who are unhappy with the goals of the homosexual agenda, and he started speaking on invitation at churches and other places.
“I want to educate people about what it means to be a man of God,” he said. “We need strong men in the church.”
Now, with a Supreme Court ruling imminent, he’s taking the issue a step further, arranging a town hall-type meeting in his community with several guest speakers who will discuss equality, homosexuality and marriage.
And he’s found out that the headwinds are strong.
In an interview with WND on Tuesday, he said he has invited Coach Dave Daubenmire of Pass the Salt Ministries and Bradlee Dean of Sons of Liberty, both longtime advocates for traditional marriage, to speak in his community.
He said he applied for permission to use a local school district’s auditorium, which is used by other community groups, and was given permission.
But the permission lasted only a couple of hours.
The district called him and canceled, explaining the superintendent “didn’t feel my type of event was appropriate for their facility.”
A discussion over First Amendment rights and the district’s responsibility to treat all speakers fairly convinced officials to back down. But then all of a sudden the district found another event “already scheduled” for June 6, the date Klawiter had planned to hold his event.
So it was changed to June 11 at the local school district auditorium, Klawiter said.
Then, although the event was confirmed and security was arranged, he said, the district called to say he could publicize the meeting but could not use the name of the facility or its address.
He said he refused that “unreasonable request.”
Then the district fired up the emergency notification system it uses to inform students and parents of school closures or threats. The district informed the community that it was required by the First Amendment to allow the event and would have rejected it if possible.
The event will go on, Klawiter said.
“Everybody’s welcome,” he said.
Daubenmire and Dean will speak and there will be questions and answers.
His efforts to bring about a dialogue over the conflict between the “gay” agenda and his Christian beliefs have brought him many opponents.
In fact, his efforts to provide security outside of his business already have “thwarted dozens of would-be attackers,” he said.
He admits he doesn’t know the intentions of everyone who arrived while the store was closed, “but there were a few that were going to be up to no good,” Klawiter said.
A critic also has posted a Facebook page that uses his company’s logo illegally. The page is filled with objectionable images, he explained.
Further, he’s had to fight to have his home address removed from the Web because of threats that it would be burned to the ground.
Klawiter previously explained his stance.
“Under the Christian sexual ethic, [homosexuality] is immoral, and harms the individuals engaging in it, and the society that tolerates,” he said.
His shop has been vandalized because of his beliefs.
According to USA Today, there was spray paint on his building, his truck and a garage door. And a rock was thrown through a window.
On Facebook, he said, “What started out with ‘mere’ death threats against myself and my family and homosexuals spamming my Facebook page with gay porn shots, has escalated to physical violence.”
His posting continued: “We called police to file a report this morning, and city of Grandville Officer John Davis responded. The officer arrived, looked around, took a few notes, chuckled, and said ‘turn it in to the insurance company.’ He gave us a police report number 15-2779, but did not take the rock which has a fingerprint on it. The homosexual agenda is evil, and is prepared to destroy anyone who gets in its way, or who calls homosexuality a sin. Today it’s us; tomorrow, it could be you.”
See the report:
The case is developing alongside other similar cases across the nation. A “Big List of Christian Coercion” has been assembled by WND describing cases in which business owners are being forced by courts and governments to violate their deeply held faith, which is protected by the U.S. Constitution.
For example, the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association was begun in 1869 to provide a place for Christian meetings and assemblies, and it still operates as one of the more popular destinations for such events on the East Coast. But the location no longer is used for weddings, because a lesbian duo was denied permission to use it, and a state discrimination complaint was filed.
And the Christian owners of Liberty Ridge Farm in New York, were fined $10,000 and assessed $1,500 in damages for not allowing a lesbian duo to use their land and home for a wedding.
State officials in Colorado have gone so far as to liken Christians to Nazis for refusing to endorse homosexual weddings.
That was in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop owner Jack Phillips, who is fighting in court to preserve his constitutional right to live by his faith.
There, a member of a state commission, Diann Rice, said: “I would also like to reiterate what we said in the hearing or the last meeting. Freedom of religion and religion has been used to justify all kinds of discrimination throughout history, whether it be slavery, whether it be the Holocaust, whether it be – I mean, we – we can list hundreds of situations where freedom of religion has been used to justify discrimination. And to me it is one of the most despicable pieces of rhetoric that people can use to – to use their religion to hurt others.”
Hear a recording of Rice’s statement:
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