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By Brandon Porter
Baptist Press
OLYMPIA, Wash. (BP) – Barronelle Stutzman’s defense of her religious liberty is over. The florist and owner of Arlene’s Flowers reached a settlement with the men who sued her because she would not design floral arrangements for their wedding in 2013.
Stutzman agreed to pay Rob Ingersoll and Curt Freed $5,000, according to a release from Alliance Defending Freedom.
“At age 77, it’s time to retire and give my business to someone else,” Stutzman wrote in a letter.
“I’ve never had to compromise my conscience, or go against my faith.”
Rather than violate her deeply-held religious beliefs, Stutzman recommended other area florists to Ingersoll when he, a longtime customer of Stutzman’s, asked her to create an arrangement for his wedding to Freed in March 2013. Click here to continue reading.
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She agreed to pay the men $5,000 of which they will use for other lgbtq causes, and she agree not to go to the supreme court. Sorry, but she did not win and neither did God’s honor.
Deb Goetz
I pray those men would come to their senses, repent of their sins, place their faith in Jesus and follow Him as their Lord. I pray that IF they are ever truly saved, they will recognize the harm they did to this woman of faith and ask for forgiveness f her whom they vilified and attempted to destroy – and William make restitution to her.