Last year, a lesbian couple sued the Wildflower Inn in Lyndonville when it refused to host the couple’s wedding reception due to the owners’ religious beliefs. That case came to an end this summer, when the inn agreed to pay $30,000 as a part of a settlement with the couple.
Now Jim and Mary O’Reilly, the owners of the Wildflower Inn, are appearing in a TV ad opposing same-sex marriage in Maine, where voters will decide whether to overturn the state’s same-sex marriage ban on Election Day. “A lesbian couple sued us for not supporting their gay wedding because of our Christian beliefs,” Jim says in the ad, which was paid for by a group called Protect Marriage Maine.
The Portland Press Herald calls the ad “misleading” and “mostly false,” since the innkeepers were sued for breaking a 1992 anti-discrimination law, not the 2009 same-sex marriage law. Watch it for yourself below.
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Is anyone surprised? These hate-filled Bible thumping bigots are rotten human beings and always have been. Maybe they should pack up and move to the deep south or Texas where they can be with bigots just like them.
I live in Maine and have been seeing this ad for some weeks now. It is extremely misleading and honestly shameful. Hypocrites, both of them.
The O’Reilly’s are actually very nice, very generous, and very misguided people.
That’s a little prejudiced don’t you think? Bible thumping bigots? Texans and Southerns are bigots too…. nice job engaging in the issue with thoughtful and constructive dialogue
Too bad. They own a beautiful property. On the one hand they do a lot or the town and the area, why not just keep your beliefs to yourself. Why go on tv ?
The O’Reilys are on the wrong side of history.