W.W. Bridal in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, will close its doors March 30 in anticipation of a new LGBT city ordinance.
The bridal shop’s owners and employees reportedly endured years of death threats over standing firm in their Christian faith by refusing to take part in same-sex weddings.
What are the details?
Co-owner Lisa Boucher spoke with the Christian Post, where she detailed the shop’s decision to shut down before the local ordinance passed.
The new ordinance would reportedly ban discrimination based on sexual orientation, and thusly impact the way some companies — specifically Christian companies — may conduct their professional business.
According to the outlet, the ordinance would not take religious beliefs of business owners into account.
“I guess what would happen is that a customer would come in and once we deny them, they would sue us,” she stated. “You know how that goes with other [businesses].
The company’s Facebook page posted a moving update on Tuesday, explaining their stance:
Many have asked why we have taken the stand that we have. Matthew 19:4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,'[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.'” This is the reason we only participate in biblical marriage. We have the right given to us by God and the Constitution to live our lives according to our faith. We will not be forced by government, local ordinances or bullies to participate in something that goes against our faith. READ MORE
