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The Vermont Human Rights Commission joined the lawsuit against the Wildflower Inn filed by New Yorkers, Katherine Baker and Ming Linsley. The unigender couple sued the owners of the Vermont inn for declining to host the wedding reception for their gender-segregated marriage.
 
Jim and Mary O’Reilly, the Catholic owners of the inn say hosting a wedding reception for two women “goes against everything that we as Catholics believe in.” Recognizing the importance of complementary genders, Catholics celebrate gender-integration in marriage.
 
The Burlington Free Press reported that "a judge has given the commission permission to intervene in the American Civil Liberties Union's discrimination lawsuit on behalf of Katherine Baker and Ming-Lien Linsley of New York."
 
Apparently the Vermont Human Rights Commission wants to force Vermonters to act contrary to their religious convictions.
 
Why does the religion of gender-segregation trump the belief that genders are complementary? Does VHRC have the right to impose its religious views on others?