From The Independent
Lesbian couple turned away by Indiana tax preparer four years after Mike Pence signed anti-LGBTQ law
A married lesbian couple in
Indiana were
turned away by a tax preparer when they attempted to file their taxes jointly last week, making them one of many victims of the state’s anti-
LGBTQ laws.
Bailey and Samantha Brazzel got married last July and decided to file their taxes jointly for the first time.
The couple went to Carter Tax Service in Russiaville to meet with Nancy Fivecoate, a tax preparer Ms Bailey used for the last four years.
“We went in there and sat down just like we always would, and then she said, ‘How are you filing this year?,’ and I said ‘married joint,’ and that’s when it went downhill,” Ms Bailey Brazzel said.
When Ms Fivecoate discovered that the same-sex couple will be filing jointly, she refused to file their taxes based on religious grounds.
COMMENT:-
I'm waiting for the day when a Jew who is a cashier at a supermarket refused to ring a customer's grocery order through on the grounds that that would entail them handling both "meat" and "milk" without having a chance to "cleanse" themselves between the items or when a Christian refuses to take an order for "Surf & Turf" on the grounds that The Bible prohibits eating shellfish.
I don't really expect that I'll have to wait all that long for either to happen.
In fact, I encourage people to set up just such cases. (They might even want to toss in refusing to serve "Inter-racial" couples because "mixing races is contrary to God's Law".)