“I tell them I will work with any person, no matter who they are and no matter what their belief systems are. He said people often ask him why he made that decision. “But that’s exactly what I’ve experienced since declining to print shirts for the 2012 Pride Festival.” “I never thought that in pursuing this passion, it would generate such controversy,” he said. Adamson said it’s always been their passion to take their customers’ ideas and make them better. See related Baptist Press story.Īdamson and his supporters held a press event in the Capitol Rotunda following the arguments.
23).īlaine Adamson, the owner of Hands-On Originals in Lexington, declined to print the shirt based on his First Amendment rights.
(BP) - A Kentucky print shop owner’s decision to not make gay pride T-shirts in 2012 because it went against his religious beliefs was argued before the Kentucky Supreme Court on Friday (Aug.
