Hundreds support Christian florist fined for refusing to work gay wedding

Source: Fox News | November 18, 2016 | ChristianPost.com

Hundreds of supporters cheered on the Washington Christian grandmother and florist who was fined for declining to make floral arrangements for a same-sex wedding as she appeared before the state’s Supreme Court on Tuesday for oral arguments in her appeal of an unfavorable lower court ruling.

As previously reported by The Christian Post, Barronelle Stutzman, the owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Richland, Washington, was fined $1,001 by the Benton County Superior Court in 2015 because of her objection to making floral arrangements for the same-sex wedding of her longtime customer Robert Ingersoll and his partner Curt Freed in 2013 because she felt it would have violated her Christian beliefs on marriage to do so.

Although Ingersoll and Freed were able to order flowers for their wedding from another florist and Stutzman had served Ingersoll for nearly 10 years, the gay couple decided to file a lawsuit against her with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union.

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After losing the lower court battle, Stutzman and her lawyers at Alliance Defending Freedom filed an appeal to the Washington Supreme Court and on Tuesday, the nine-justice court held oral arguments in an auditorium at Bellevue College.

According to the Tri-City Herald, hundreds of supporters came out to encourage Stutzman.

Even though the auditorium seats 300 people, the complex was filled to capacity and other supporters had to gather outside the auditorium. The majority of the people gathered outside the auditorium were there in support of Stutzman and her fight for religious freedom. The supporters were holding white roses and signs that read “Let Freedom Bloom,” “Freedom to Create,” and “Justice for Barronelle.”

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