In June, Trey Sanchez wrote about farmers being excluded from selling fruit and vegetables 22 miles from their home, because they don't want to support gay marriage. Yes, really:

The progressive officials of East Lansing, Michigan, banned a local farmer from selling his crop at market because of his views on marriage. Steve Tennes, owner of The Country Mill in the nearby town of Charlotte, has for years sold fruit at the East Lansing Farmers Market twenty miles away. But because he refused to host a lesbian wedding on his farm three years ago, the city is discriminating against his religious beliefs.

Now, the Tenneses are fighting back. Recently, the Daily Signal sent a team out to their home to talk to the couple about exactly what happened and what they are going to do to make sure this doesn't happen to anyone else in America with deeply-held religious beliefs:

"This isn't just about our ability to sell at the farmer's market, it's really about every American's right to make a living without having to worry about the fear of being punished by the government," Tennes said. "One of the things we enjoy about the family farm is that we're able to raise our five children on the farm in accordance to our faith." He went on to point out that they serve people of all backgrounds and all beliefs at East Lansing's city-run Farmer's Market. But they were excluded from the market after someone on Facebook asked them about their policy on letting same sex wedding occur on their farm. They respond to the query with a gracious post:

Of course, that wasn't enough to placate the gods of political correctness, but the Alliance Defending Freedom points out at least two big issues with East Lansing’s actions:

• First and foremost, Country Mill Farms has a right to speak about their religious beliefs and still attend the market – a right East Lansing denied them when it expelled them from the market conditioning their return on the surrender of their religious speech. If the City can stop a farmer from participating in a farmer’s market because it doesn’t like his entirely unrelated view of marriage, then the City can deny any person any benefit based on that person’s speech, religious beliefs, or social and political views.
• Beyond that, Country Mill Farms is in Charlotte, Michigan, which is 22 miles outside of East Lansing. The City’s regulation of speech outside its jurisdiction amounts to major government overreach. 

It's great that this family is fighting back against this egregious overreach of the government. It's very sad that they must.

h/t Alliance Defending Freedom