LGBT group wins discrimination case; Smotrich blasts ‘outrageous’ court ruling

The Beersheba District Court this morning ruled that a local printing house must compensate an LGBT rights group after it refused to print posters for the Gay Pride Parade in the city some three years ago.

At the time the owner of the business wrote to the person that contacted him to inquire on prices: “We do not deal with abominable material. We are Jews!”

The court this morning ruled that the owner must pay The Aguda – Israel’s LGBT Task Force a sum of NIS 50,000 ($14,000) for discrimination.

Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich of the religious right-wing part Yamina calls the ruling “outrageous,” tweeting that the court was “forcing a religious and mitzvah-keeping man to act against his belief at his private business. [This is] serious secular coercion.”